Re: [orca-list] Please test Orca master with Firefox and Thunderbird

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Bill, does this only happen with Orca master and not with Orca 3.8.0?

On 04/13/2013 05:53 PM, Bill Dengler(Ubuntu) wrote:
> bugs(not sure where to report) : when replying to a message in
> thunderbird 17.0.5, using arrow keys while attempting to reply to
> e-mail causes some lines to be read twice. Could somebody try to
> reproduce this?
>
> Bill On 04/13/2013 05:37 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey guys.
>
> > To make a long story short, AtkText is a complicated interface
> > that causes much consternation in implementors. In fact, if you
> > read Alex Surkov's Twitter timeline [1], you'll see how one Gecko
> > Accessibility developer feels about it. Spoiler alert: He doesn't
> > like it.<smiles>
>
> > In the spirit of making things better for everyone, we need a
> > simpler AtkText interface. And in order for that to occur, some
> > changes will have to be made in Orca. In particular, Orca needs
> > to stop calling methods that should probably be deprecated and
> > ultimately removed from ATK and AT-SPI2.
>
> > Today I have taken the first step in that process by no longer
> > calling getTextBeforeOffset() and getTextAfterOffset().
> > getTextAtOffset() should get the job done. And if it doesn't, it
> > is a bug in the accessibility implementation of the toolkit.
> > Which brings me to the next point:
>
> > Ironically, the calls we were making to these
> > should-be-deprecated methods were needed to work around Gecko
> > bugs. Orca wasn't using those methods elsewhere. So the good news
> > is that the changes I made today will impact nothing other than
> > Orca's Gecko support. And if all the bugs we were working around
> > have been fixed in Gecko, the changes I made today will not even
> > impact that. But we need your testing. In particular, is there
> > any brokenness in Orca's support for Gecko in Orca master that is
> > not broken in Orca's support for Gecko using Orca v3.8.0. For
> > this test, please compare those specific versions of Orca and do
> > so using the same version of Firefox.
>
> > Thanks in advance! Take care. --joanie
>
> > [1] https://twitter.com/surkovalexander 
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