Re: [orca-list] firefox toolbar with orca?

[Will Estes <westes575 gmail com>]

Thanks. That is a good summary of what is possible.

On Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 10:09 am +0200, Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Unfortunatelly in most cases using flat review is the only way on how to
> navigate and activate Firefox toolbar buttons.
> Default Firefox functionality do also have other means on how to activate
> themsuch as bookmarks menu, View and Sidebar.
> When firefox displays an alert at the top of the screen such as when
> installing an addon, when subnitting a form and similar it is possible to
> find out a button that places focus to the  alert at the top by tabbing
> past the address bar i.e. I do usually press alt+d to jump to the address
> bar and then press the tab key to find context sensitive button or the
> button that opens Page info dialog.
> Another not very obvious place that is accessible and plugin authors tend
> to put their items is web content popup menu. I navigate the web like
> normal using quick nav keys or arrow keys, make sure no link or other
> focusable control is selected, press the applications key and explore the
> menu.
> Yet another place where there might be some hidden menu entries is the
> selected tab popup menu. If you do have multiple tabs open in your Firefox
> window just press ctrl+d to jump to the address bar and keep pressing the
> tab key until the tab gains the focus. Here you can activate a popup menu
> by pressing applications key on the right hand side of the keyboard.
> For example this has a mute tab menu item inside that might be usefull if
> you would like to mute audio on otherwise poorly designed site.
>
> Unfortunatelly as I have said at the begining I don't know my-self how to
> activate the toolbar items other than using flat review and simulating
> clicks on them.
>
> Ah yes one more time, for bookmarklets, they can be activated via the
> Bookmarks submenu on the menu bar (F10).
>
> And in older versions of Firefox (before Firefox 57). Plugin authors were
> also putting their icons to the Firefox statusbar. This is not accessible
> as well.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> 2018-04-09 14:03 GMT+02:00 Will Estes <westes575 gmail com>:
>
> > How do I navigate to the firefox toolbar using orca?
> >
> > I've got a firefox extension that places an item in the toolbar of
> > firefox. I can verify that the icon is present using review commands but
> > have been unable to sort out how to activate the thing.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Will
> >
> > --
> > Will Estes
> > westes575 gmail com
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Will Estes
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