Re: [orca-list] Orca and Twitter website bugs

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hello there,
Was just curious, is there a totally accessible twitter client in Gnome?
I will have to start using twitter for my activities so wondering if
there is one accessible client.
the major problem I have right now is that I am not able to read reply
to my twits.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 22/11/2015, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> Hi Alex.
>
> Yes, you are clear. And in my tests, NVDA doesn't present that either.
> As for why that is: Taking a look at the Twitter page source, Twitter
> uses ARIA to expose the name of items in the timeline, and they mark the
> retweet text for your own retweets using aria-hidden="true".
>
> According to the W3C ARIA specification, user agents and assistive
> technologies are not supposed to present content where aria-hidden is
> set to True.
>
> What Orca (and I assume NVDA) do on sites like Twitter is present the
> accessible name of the list item. The bug you reported was due to Orca
> not doing that on Twitter. The fix I made in Orca was to be sure we do
> that on Twitter. Firefox's accessibility support is where each screen
> reader gets that name. Because Twitter has indicated to Firefox that
> your retweet text should not be exposed, Firefox doesn't include it in
> the name. Because Firefox doesn't include in the name, Orca (and I
> assume NVDA) are not speaking it.
>
> With all this in mind, if I do what you want, namely:
>
> > In my personal timeline (@alexarnaud_) I retweet something so Orca you
> > should say "Alex ARNAUD has retweet" and only say "Accessible pour tous"
> > and the content.
>
> I would arguably be adding a bug and making Orca not compliant with a
> W3C specification; not fixing a bug.
>
> --joanie
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