Re: [orca-list] Orca and Firefox 57

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll take a look. Thanks!
--joanie

On 11/20/2017 06:07 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> 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 <http://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
> <mailto: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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