[orca-list] Further to Aria-Hidden, Firefox 25, and Orca

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, All:

A few days ago I responded here that the ARIA team in W3C were trying to
understand what Firefox has been doing recently and why. I would have
replied to that message here, but I've lost it, so had to start this new
one.

The previous message I'm replying to is at:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2013-December/msg00020.html


In that mail I wrote:

"There seems to be general agreement in the ARIA group that Firefox is
misunderstanding part of the ARIA specification, though we think we can
also understand some of how that misunderstanding came about. There will
be an effort to get them to back off for now, and allow us to clear the
anomaly in an orderly fashion during the next phase of ARIA development.
In this regard the minutes from today's ARIA teleconference might be of
interest:"

https://www.w3.org/2013/12/02-pf-minutes.html


Two quick updates:

1.)     Our ARIA minutes are intended to be publically visible, but I
understand this was not the case. My apologies for our mistake. Those
minutes are now readable by anyone. If you tried and were blocked,
please try again. They should come right up.

2.)     I am pleased to note that the relevant Mozilla bug:

Bug 935254] Regression: atk_text_get_text_at_offset implementation
broken for list items starting 03 July 2013
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935254

Has now been elevated: "Importance: Major"

Janina


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