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

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

Hi.
Please disregard my previous answer.
The same problem is happening here too.
And yes, only with orca master.


On 04/13/2013 09:33 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi.
> I could not reproduce using orca master with TB 17.0.5 on my arch box.
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 04/13/2013 06:53 PM, Bill Dengler(Ubuntu) wrote:
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> > 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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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza