Re: [orca-list] impact firefox 57 and orca

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

If you run Firefox Beta or Nightly, would that not immediately answer the question of whether 57+ will work with Orca? That's what I intend to do before upgrading /usr/bin/firefox to 57, at which point I'll either pin the package or make the upgrade as the situation warrants.

On 10/30/2017 07:37 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:

Hello,

The related work has just been started at Mozilla side of things. Have you also read that linked article written by Marco Zehe at about a month ago? https://www.marcozehe.de/2017/09/29/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/

The work is mostly related to browser vs AT navigation paradigm on Windows, however I imagine at-spi2 support within Firefox might also be affected mainly if they change some shared API in Firefox.

Nor at-spi nor orca currently uses techniques they are about changing so if a possible compatibility will arise it won't be planned.

I would advise to test with nightly version of Firefox so we can quickly discover issues as they arise during this period when Firefox accessibility is going to be in partial rewrite. Perhaps when we can gently report issues, we might get lucky and more of the a11y bugs will get solved at Firefox side of things. I guess linux a11y has not been touched for ages within Mozilla code base.

Greetings

Peter

2017-10-30 11:20 GMT+01:00 Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93 gmail com>:

hi there,
an odd question I know, but I saw this URL from vfo in regards to
firefox buggyness more specifically firefox 57
will this effect us here in linux land and orca?
http://blog.freedomscientific.com/2017/10/25/important-information-for-users-of-mozilla-firefox/
another artical in regards to this,
https://nvda.groups.io/g/nvda/message/28293
sorry if this is ot by a great margen but was interested.
thanks for reading,
Majid Hussain


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