Re: [orca-list] Orca and Epiphany?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This sounds very good. I bet it will help on some very interestng sites.
--
B.H.


On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 06:31:49AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Al.
>
> I just took a quick look at the demo course. What seems to be going on
> is the following:
>
> 1. Native caret navigation is not working properly on that site. This
>    is problematic for both Epiphany and Firefox. In the former case,
>    Orca does not control the caret at all and relies upon native caret
>    navigation working. In the latter case, Orca can control the caret,
>    but it sees it is in ARIA content and concludes that it shouldn't
>    control the caret for that reason. I'll see what I can do about this
>    for Firefox.
>
> 2. Structural navigation is not working properly on that site in
>    Firefox. The reason why is, again, Orca sees that it is in ARIA and
>    disables structural navigation. I just committed a change to Orca
>    master so Orca keeps structural navigation enabled even in ARIA.
>    As a result, you should now be able to navigate the site in Firefox
>    by using 'm' to jump amongst landmarks and then other commands to
>    interact with the content there. This works for me for both text and
>    playing the video.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --joanie
>
> On 08/04/2014 07:00 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> > Hey, Joanie.
> >
> > Previous times I didn't enable caret navigation, but I just tried that.
> >  I got a little more information, but not much.  I tried to watch
> > several videos, but got only a few seconds of one.
> >
> > The site I'm trying to deal with is
> >
> > www.edx.org
> >
> > and in particularly the course called Introduction to Linux or
> > something.  You need a login there, but it's free and no trouble to
> > get--at least, that was true a bit over a year ago.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/04/2014 06:11 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Hey Al.
> > >
> > > Did you enable caret navigation in Epiphany by pressing F7? Also, is
> > > there a particular page you're having problems with (in either browser)?
> > >
> > > --joanie
> > >
> > > On 08/04/2014 04:39 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> > > > Greetings!  Also, sorry for some duplication for those who saw my
> > > > message on the Blinux list:  I should have put it here first.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, has anybody been able to use Orca with Epiphany?  I have vague
> > > > memories that somebody might have, but my several efforts have produced
> > > > almost nothing.  I tried it yesterday on an edx.org course page after
> > > > being unable to get to some course content via Firefox, but I got
> > > > nowhere.  Since one of the edx.org tech people suggested giving Epiphany
> > > > a try, I thought I should check with others, though I also told this
> > > > person of my experience.  (I note with gratitude that the edx.org tech
> > > > support folks seem to know at least a little about non-visual access
> > > > stuff, and have replied promptly to my inquiries.)
> > > >
> > > > I'll be grateful for any pointers.
> > > >
> > > > Al
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