Re: [orca-list] The New Focus Mode Stuff

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

I was thinking of deleting a Gmail mail and seeing if that little
yellow alert has an aria role on it. It also has two links inside
one being "Undo". Can't remember the other link name.

_mallory
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 09:20:45PM +0200, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> The issue with such alert type messages not being spoken while using
> gmail in Firefox with Orca might most likelly mean orca is not
> correctly picking aria live regions found in gmail. A little while
> ago I have reported a similar case that such an alert message is not
> anounced after opening a gmail conversation.
> Unfortunatelly I have found another case where orca is not properly
> handling such a rich list. It's in the gmail contacts. When that
> list of contacts gets keyboard focus orca does not switch into focus
> mode and unfortunatelly even when it's being switched to focus mode
> manually it does report nothing while trying to use arrow keys. I
> need to play more with this because I am not sure this is a gmail
> issue or an orca issue.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
> On 29.08.2014 o 19:07 Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey Steve.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback and findings!
> >
> > On 08/29/2014 06:17 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sitting here comparing Orca with NVDA but I know similar
> > > features are in effect here so am thinking that a couple parts of the
> > > new stuff may not be working quite right.
> > I've not looked into it yet, but I suspect you're correct about it being
> > an instance of the new stuff not working quite right. In particular,
> > there's probably some proper ARIA being done by Google which Orca is not
> > properly handling. If that is indeed the case I'll try to fix this ASAP.
> > Maybe even today.
> >
> > > I know this is reletively new to Orca so is off to an excellent start.
> > Thank you for saying so. Once I finally finish the sad-hack detanglement
> > and removal, I'll give more dedicated attention to Orca's Gecko web app
> > support -- and also implement caret navigation support in Epiphany so
> > that Orca users will have a proper choice in which the user experience
> > is (expected to be) the same. In the meantime, I am quite pleased to
> > know what is currently in place doesn't suck too badly. <smiles>
> >
> > Thanks again. Take care.
> > --joanie
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