Re: [orca-list] odd issues in focus mode with seamonkey

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

Thanks for the debug.out. The good news is that I can reproduce it now.
The bad news is that the event we're getting for the popup menu looks
valid. SeaMonkey is telling Orca you are now in that menu. If Orca
ignores that event, we're in danger of Orca ignoring truly valid focus
events which look quite similar. And ignoring truly valid focus events
would be really bad.

I'll give this some more thought, but we may need to have it fixed on
the SeaMonkey side. In the meantime, since Firefox seems to work, if you
could use that for sites like Bookshare, that would be my recommendation.

--joanie

On 05/04/2016 06:39 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Kendell.
>
> I just tried using SeaMonkey 2.40 and am not seeing the problem. Can you
> reliably reproduce the problem? If so, could you please capture a full
> debug.out? When you send it to me, please include the steps to reproduce
> along with their keypresses (both for navigation and for your search query).
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On 05/03/2016 01:12 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > This has been going on for a while, but I've just now found an easy way
> > to reproduce this. The issue is that when orca enters a text field
> > automatically when navigating to it in seamonkey, after the first
> > character is entered, orca will not announce the second one entered and
> > will then switch over to browse mode. However, orca doesn't announce
> > this so you still think you're in focus mode, and you'll get bounced
> > around the page as orca treats your text as structural nav commands.
> > Steps to reproduce. Go to http://www.bookshare.org. Type in a query in
> > the search field. You will get two characters in and then will have to
> > press orca+a to get back into focus mode to finish the search. Note that
> > this is not limited to bookshare. Most, but not all, form fields will do
> > this. Examples include baard (braille and audio reading download)
> > website, bookshare, and wikipedia. Google, for some reason, doesn't.
> > That is a very weird search field. Orca says it's a combo box, but it
> > seems to be a strange combination of a combo box and a text field. This
> > happens with both orca master and stable. Can anyone else confirm this
> > strange issue in seamonkey? I know storm reported this a few weeks ago
> > but got no response. This seems to be limited to seamonkey, firefox
> > doesn't suffer from this issue.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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