Re: [orca-list] Orca and Firefox 57

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,

Finally I have been prompted to keep running nightly version of Firefox for my day to day browsing so hopefully in the future I might be able to notice possible accessibility issues sooner than later.

Both Firefox 57 stable and Firefox 59 nightly are working fine for me and what I'm describing in this post appear to work the same way in both these versions although I can't prove it performance improvements on Firefox are also noticeable when running Firefox 59 with orca.

The positive news is that infinity scrolling has been changed in a way that I can just keep pressing arrow keys when navigating with orca running and Firefox scrolls the parts I am navigating to into view.

I have first noticed this with a riot.im chat app as its room timeline is designed to scroll infinitelly. I was able to verify this at other pages e.g. Facebook. Note how Facebook issues notification saying something loaded more events when you are navigating by headings in the timeline.

Depending on your situation I would say this is such a dramatic change that a lot of people would wish to update to Firefox 57!

However I have so far also noticed one negative change. When using Firefox built-in find dialog to search for content orca used to present the match highlighted in the content view when pressing the enter key inside the find dialog. After upgrading to Firefox 57 this appears to be very random and most of the times orca is not reporting the search result as its being highlighted. When pressing esc key to dismiss the find dialog the line with the last search hit is preselected so I fail to understand what's going on wrong here. Joanie, please please can you try looking at it if you can understand this better and possibly suggest if there is a way to improve this?

Greetings

Peter

2017-11-09 15:06 GMT+01:00 Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>:

Hi Pavel.

I hope you don't mind my CCing the Orca list since maybe other people
are wondering the same thing.

Regarding Firefox 57 and Windows: Linux is not Windows. Unless something
has changed about which I am unaware, Orca should continue to work with
Firefox. I use Orca with Firefox Nightly which is currently in version
58. Still works for me. I've not had to make any special "new firefox"
modifications to Orca. And again, as far as I am aware, there are no
such modifications for me to make. If you are experiencing something
different, please let me know.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 11/09/2017 12:29 AM, Pavel Vlček wrote:
> Dear Joanie,
>
> Firefox 57 is coming on 14th November. Developers changed access to
> assistive technologies and Windows screen reader users must now disable
> Firefox updates, because it is inaccessible at this time. So my question
> is, will Orca work with new Firefox 57 and if so, what version of Orca
> will be ready for new Firefox?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pavel
>
>
>

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