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

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Hi, Chris.

I made the changes you suggested.  This seems to have helped on 
radio.macinmind.com, though I note that it worked fine last week when I 
had both settings checked.  In the Jeff Jacoby article I mentioned 
earlier, it allowed me to arrow down about as far as the body of the 
article but then bounced me somewhere else.

The strangest one is this:  when I returned to the www.factcheck.org 
article about Elizabeth Warren's involvement in the esbestos case, I 
could get as far as the line about how Scott Brown should be ashamed but 
no further.  Recall that this first happened to me when I wasn't using a 
find command but was doing continuous reading.

In short, your suggestions helped some, which I appreciate, but the 
problem seems to have more to it.  Too bad our coffee pot's empty!

Al



On 10/17/2012 08:05 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Just a guess, but try turning off "Grab focus on object when navigating"
> and "Automatically start speaking a page when it's first opened."
>
> On 17/10/12 07:01, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
> > Hi, Thomas.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm sorry to say that I still got bonked to the
> > top.  I had been using the control-f find command, and always had to use the
> > escape key to get out of finding mode.  Using the slash, I'd find what I
> > wanted, Orca would repeat the line twice, and I'd be back at the top.  (I
> > had not hit escape.) I already needed my coffee this morning, but now I need
> > it more.  :-)
> >
> > Al
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> > Behalf Of Thomas Ward
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:59 PM
> > To: orca-list
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] page-jumping bummers with Firefox and Orca
> >
> > 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
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