Re: [orca-list] Lots of sticking on links when using tab or up/down arrows to navigate in firefox

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi again Burt.

I just checked in a change which will hopefully fix this problem. It did
on the New York Times example you provided. Could you please pull master
(or the gnome-3-16 branch) and test again?

Thanks much!
--joanie

On 03/06/2015 08:46 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> I can reproduce this. I've been seeing more cases of Gecko killing
> accessible objects as soon as they get focus, and this appears like such
> a case.
>
> Thanks for the report!
> --joanie
>
> On 03/06/2015 08:38 PM, B.Henry wrote:
> > I do not know how bad this might have been, or how rare/good in recent
> > builds to tell the truth, but a few  days ago when you asked folks to
> > update and test for regressions I did.
> > Now I am getting a lot of sticking on links. I can neither tab, shift
> > tab, or up/down arrow off of links on a good many web pages.
> > One example is
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/us/in-ferguson-both-sides-see-vindication-in-justice-department-reports.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_wonk&_r=0#
> >
> > The "skip to content" type of links at the top of pages as often has
> > been the case are one place where this has happened, but not exclusively
> > so by any means.
> > A couple of  sites where I never remember having trouble were
> > problematic today, but they are logged-in to pages so could only share
> > them by attaching  a copy of the downloaded content.
> > Again, some of this may well have been going on all along. I can go a
> > week or two with out a lot of firefox use, i.e. could certainly be
> > partly site choices, but I certainly have not seen so many sticky links
> > that I can remember.
>
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