Re: [orca-list] Firefox text fields

[Tami Kinney <tamara 8024 comcast net>]

I am experiencing the same thing on Ubuntu 11.10. I am having similar 
reading issues when writing e-mails in Thunderbird.

Hope somebody finds a fix soon!

Tami

On 10/22/2011 07:44 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I would agree the situation has become worse, and that it seems to be
> related to a Firefox update. I get no characters or words echoed as I
> type into an entry field in Firefox. It used to be just the case that I
> didn't get any feedback when pressing the backspace key, but now I don't
> hear anything when typing anything into an entry field. I can review
> what I  typed using the cursor keys, including control+arrow to move by
> word. Note that I'm running Firefox 7.0.1 and Orca 3.1.9-xdesktop on
> Vinux 3.2.1 (Ubuntu 11.04).
>
> On 22/10/11 18:28, Jason White wrote:
> > As of Firefox 7 (and I'm not sure when the bug was introduced), characters
> > typed into text fields are not presented either in braille or speech unless
> > one uses the cursor keys to move around in the text field.
> >
> > Can others reproduce this? I know there are already associated Mozilla bugs
> > regarding backspace, but the situation appears to be worse now - I can't read
> > what I type into any text field, as far as I can determine.
> >
> >
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