Re: [orca-list] Orca reading things not on screen in FF?

[Clinton Waterbury <cwaterbury comcast net>]

On 04/17/2013 10:10 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> I think dropbox uses a lot of Ajax.  You would probably have the same exact
> trouble with www.facebook.com, gmail.google.com (the nonbasic html version)
> and any other site that uses asynchronous javascript and xml a.k.a. AJAX.
>
> Alex M
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> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Bill
> Dengler(Ubuntu)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:52 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca reading things not on screen in FF?
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> And Chrome VOx probably works best for web stuff.
>
> Bill
> On 04/17/2013 07:47 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I've run into this quite often especially with Firefox with Orca but I
> > have also experienced this with Firefox and Window-Eyes too.  I have
> > an idea that Firefox may be to blaim here by not exposing all
> > clickable elements and other "fake links".  Another site where I have
> > a lot of trouble with this is on www.dropbox.com.
> >
> > I've gotten to rely more on my mac for a lot of web stuff. Safari with
> > VoiceOver works better in these areas.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:52:54PM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:42:56AM -0400, Mike Gorse wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > It seems that I am constantly running across controls on web pages
> > > > that require mouse clicks to activate them (ie, pressing space or
> > > > enter to activate them doesn't cut it), and, when I enter flat
> > > > review to try to cut them, the flat review cursor is moved to the
> > > > file menu, rather than the control where Orca thinks that the caret
> > > > is positioned. My guess is that the control that I have selected
> > > > isn't actually on the screen, but I could be wrong. I can't figure
> > > > out how to scroll it onto the screen or otherwise be able to select
> > > > it. Does anyone have any advice?
> > > not really, I've seen stuff like that, but never had time to debug
> > > what's going wrong.
> > >
> > > Trev
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Mike
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> > > > 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
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> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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> > 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
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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
I've figured out how to get around that.
What I do is press the right arrow to get into the area of text on the 
link i want, and then press numpad slash to left click the item.