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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Have you tried corebird? I need to see about getting this added to the
manjaro repository and added to sonar if it's accessible. Twitter is
supposed to work with pidgin but a lot of people want a traditional
desktop app, and corebird seems to be it
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/22/2015 02:38 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> 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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