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

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Joanie.
Until now I found a small problem.
There is a line in an e-mail that is read twice by orca when scrolling 
with the down arrow.
This happened in a single e-mail but it happens every time I revisit 
this email.
And yes, only with orca master.


I can send the e-mail if necessary or create a debug file.



On 04/13/2013 06:37 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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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza