Re: [orca-list] Orca doesn't identify links/indicate formatting on a website I'm building

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Just realized something else today. I occasionally, once every few days 
or so, see the exact same behavior on Hacker News 
(https://news.ycombinator.com.) The site will load, but speak as if it 
is just a window of text. I do get a bit more formatting info since it 
(still!) uses tables for layouts, and that much seems to transfer into 
displaying things in lines. But I otherwise can't tab through page 
elements, and have to reload the page for a fix.


Further, I'm even seeing similar behavior on *Android*. Sometimes 
Firefox renders the page as text, and page elements don't speak their 
types nor can I double-tap them. It is as if every page element is text 
with which I can't interact. I recognize that Android is a different 
platform with a separate accessibility API, but I'm wondering if there's 
some broader Firefox bug at play where it just fails to update access 
technologies in certain circumstances. I'm hoping the debug log might 
help, but I still can't produce a distributable reproduction. But HN 
reliably fails for me on Android, though I've not seen it on other sites.



On 10/24/2016 06:27 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Unfortunately not, that's what I meant when I said I couldn't find the 
> threshold where it stopped happening. A simple project doesn't trigger 
> it, but a complex project almost always does, even when I carve down 
> the dependency tree. I'm hoping my debug log will help.
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> On 10/24/2016 06:21 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > If you can't share the exact code, could you create a small sample 
> > page that duplicates the issue?