Re: [orca-list] Question: How should Orca announce elements inside anchor tags in Firefox?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Parham.

If it's just spans, that's easy. If it's all elements immediately inside
a link, that's easy. If it's all elements that may be nested unknown
levels deep, then that's where things get uglier. So how literal should
I take your example below?

--joanie

On 01/27/2015 08:00 AM, Parham Doustdar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some time ago, I created an issue on the Orca issue tracker regarding
> Orca's treatment of links. A lot of times, when you are on a website, a
> link isn't announced as a link because it's another element inside a
> link. For example, if you have an HTML like this:
>
> <a href="whatever"><span>Some text</span></a>
>
> Orca would only say "some text" rather than "some text link". Naturally,
> this doesn't tell me I can click on this link using the enter key.
> However, Joanie has correctly mentioned the fact that for Orca to do
> this, it'd have to climb the accessibility tree to get to see if this
> element has an anchor parent. Understandably, this would incur a
> performance penalty in Firefox. However, not having it makes web
> navigation tricky.
>
> I'm looking to see if anyone has a solution for this. This does happen
> on Windows without a performance hit, but it could have something to do
> with Windows and its different accessibility stack. This is one of the
> things that makes me have to constantly switch to a Windows screen
> reader to browse the website first, get familiar with it, and then
> switch back to Orca. I would prefer not to have to do this.
>
> Thanks all!
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