Re: [orca-list] page-jumping bummers with Firefox and Orca

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Al,

Hmmm...I'm running Firefox 16.01 with Orca 1.4.2 and it seems to be
working normally here. For example, I can press the slash key for
Firefox find command, type Repply into the search field, and press tab
to land on the Reply button in gmail However, if I press escape I go
back to the top of the page. So I think the problem is pressing escape
cancels the find in Firefox. Rather than pressing escape try tabbing
to the link or arrowing up or down to the heading you just searched
for.

HTH


On 10/16/12, Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I've noticed the following problems especially since Sunday.  I'm using
> Fedora 17, Orca 3.4.2, and Firefox 16.0.1.  (I believe Firefox was
> updated last Thursday.)
>
> First, when I've used Firefox's find command to locate something, then
> hit escape to read from there, I've ended up somewhere else on the Web
> page, usually near the top.  One place where it happened intermittently is
>
> <radio.macinmind.com>
>
> I follow the "recent and upcoming" link, do a find on the day whose
> shows I want, hit escape after finding it, and find myself at the
> beginning of the page.  The same thing happened when I tried to read an
> article by Jeff Jacoby on
>
> <www.jewishworldreview.com>
>
> I followed the link at his name, then the on under "Archives" dated
> october 15, did a find on a part of the article's title, hit escape,
> arrowed down once or twice, then ended up somewhere else on the page.
>
> I apparently don't need to use the find command to have the problem.  On
>
> <www.factcheck.org>
>
> I started the article, also dated October 15, on the esbestos case that
> Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was involved in.  I was
> reading with little problem until I came to the end of a quote about How
> her rival, Scott Brown, "ought to be ashamed of himself" or something
> (for his alleged falsehoods about her involvement in the case).  At that
> point, Orca said "text" and then took me to the top of the page.  I then
> used the Firefox find command to get back to where I'd been, and once
> again got kicked to the top.
>
> Has anybody else had a problem like this?  Any suggestions for solving
> it will be great, maybe reducing the number of times I must jump back on
> our Windows box to read some of this stuff.  :-) Thanks!
>
> Al Sten-Clanton
> _____