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

[Fernando Botelho <Fernando Botelho F123 org>]

Maybe we can have a toggle option under preferences that lets us decide 
if the performance hit is worth it.

Best,

Fernando

On 01/27/2015 12:10 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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