Re: [orca-list] Orca and Firefox.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Victor.

Vinux, last time I checked is based on GNOME (and Orca 3.4.x). That's
pretty old. GNOME 3.4 was released in March 2012. Since that time, there
have been the following stable releases:

* GNOME 3.6 in September 2012
* GNOME 3.8 in March 2013
* GNOME 3.10 in September 2013.

We're currently working towards the 3.12 release which will come out in
a few months.

You'll have to ask on the Vinux list for more information about their plans.

Hope this helps.
--joanie

On 01/16/2014 08:33 PM, Victor Lawrence wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> My name is Victor and I'm brand new to Orca and Linux.  Recently, I
> installed Vinux on an older laptop and I've been getting to know the
> operating system since then.
>
> Right now, my main problem is that Orca doesn't seem to interact very
> well with certain websites when using Mozilla Firefox.  Namely,
> Facebook.  When using Facebook with Orca and Firefox, the experience
> is extremely slow when I try to share something on Facebook.  I'm one
> of the administrators of my employer's Facebook and Twitter accounts
> and I need to have the same degree of access to social media on the
> internet that I get with Windows.
>
> Also, I have very little access to Yahoo webmail and somewhat poor
> access to Gmail.  I prefer to use web-based email to get the most
> security.
>
> I've been using JAWS for Windows and NVDA for a long time.  So far,
> I'm not happy with Orca's current limitations when accessing the
> internet.  Do any of you have any suggestions for gaining better
> access to the full Facebook website with Orca and Firefox?  Are there
> any tricks that any of you have discovered to make this work better
> for me?
>
> When will the next stable release of Orca come out?  As Orca is
> already integrated with Gnome, I keep hoping my Update Manager will
> download an improvement soon.
>
> As you can tell, I'm a little frustrated with these limitations.  Any
> help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Victor
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