Re: [orca-list] problems with audible.com and latest orca

[covici ccs covici com]

Thanks so much -- but then I wonder, how does a normal sighted user do
anything with this at all?   I wonder if you click that now text, does
preview change to something you can click on?  Very strange to me -- I
really appreciate all you have done for Orca, it has improved so much
over the past few months.

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

> Hi John.
>
> I've got good news and bad news.
>
> On 05/30/2015 05:07 AM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > Hi.  I am having problems navigating audible.com with orca -- I am using
> > the mode where each link is a separate line and when you go into
> > audible, each word is a link, at least at the top of the page.
>
> This one I can reproduce. And while it is a consequence of how Firefox
> renders offscreen/not visible text when authors set the width, I may be
> able to hack around it safely and will try to do so.
>
> Regarding this next one:
>
> > next problem requires credentials -- once you sign in and search for a
> > book, the give as a gift window is not working properly -- it seems to
> > work, till you get to the preview item which you can tab to, but is not
> > a link, clickable or anything, is this something you can fix?
>
> I can reproduce it. However, I cannot fix it. Looking at my debug.out,
> when I tab to the Cancel push button I see this:
>
> ----------> QUEUEING FOCUS: [PUSH BUTTON | CANCEL] (0,0,0)
> ----------> QUEUEING OBJECT:STATE-CHANGED:FOCUSED [PUSH BUTTON | CANCEL]
> (1,0,0)
>
> In other words, two events saying an object of role push button whose
> name is "Cancel" got focus. Compare that to what I see when I tab to
> Preview:
>
> ----------> QUEUEING FOCUS: [PARAGRAPH | PREVIEW] (0,0,0)
> ----------> QUEUEING OBJECT:STATE-CHANGED:FOCUSED [PARAGRAPH | PREVIEW]
> (1,0,0)
>
> Preview claims to be a paragraph. Orca has no way of knowing it's
> something else.
>
> When I look at the associated markup, I see:
>
> <input value="Cancel" title="Cancel" type="submit">
>
> So that's how Gecko, and thus Orca, know Cancel is a button. In
> contrast, for Preview I see:
>
> <p tabindex="0" class="btnOrange preview" id="adbl-gift-previewbutton"
> title="Preview"><span>Preview</span></p>
>
> Audible can fix this via ARIA markup, setting the role of that paragraph
> to "button". If they do so, Gecko will know it's a button and will pass
> that information along to Orca. Since you are a paying Audible customer,
> I encourage you to pass this information along to them so that they can
> fix it.
>
> --joanie

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         covici ccs covici com