OK, I'm totally now at a loss. If you, or anyone else can hop
into this thread and try helping, I'd appreciate it.
I did what you said with these commands. I got Firefox to run,
after doing the last command, the...
./firefox
I heard the little Ubuntu Bongo sound, then Firefox came up and
asked me if I wanted to make it the default. Given that I didn't
yet know if this would fix things, I said no, for the time being,
but I left the box checked to always check on launch. This way, if
we ever get this fixed, I can easily enough set it.
I then hit CTRL+L, and typed in my own website.
http://www.gshministry.org
Once the page loaded, I down arrowed until I got to the heading
saying Our favorite quote
Below that line, it says, if you down arrow one time past that
heading:
A smile on your face shows God's grace.
On that line, I hit the home key, and I heard the high pitch A,
to indicate I'm at the start of the line.
I then hit shift+down arrow, to select that line of text. Orca
said absolutely nothing. Not even in the 52 ESR build of Firefox.
I tried replicating this on an Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit system, this
way I wasn't on a test build, in case something in 18.04 is
broken, but even that didn't work. It appears the text is
correctly being selected, but Orca just isn't reporting so. I
remember this being a problem in earlier versions of Orca, but if
I am understanding you, and others correctly, you're claming, not
trying to put proverbial words in you all's mouths, that when I
did that shift+down arrow, Orca should have spoken and told me
that that line of text was selected.
Do you all think that Voxin is causing this to not work? I don't
see any reason whatsoever for that to be the case, but... I'd not
even know how to get back to ESpeak to find out if it works there.
I believe you all entirely that this should work. I'm just saying
for me, it's not doing so no matter what the heck I try.
I wonder if I updated to Orca 3.27 if that would help. Again, I'm
on 3.26.0, according to what it says at the terminal when I do
orca -v
I'd not have even the remote slightest idea though how to go
about updating to 3.27. Software Center, nor apt will let me get
it, so I suspect, I'd have to probably build it from source,
wouldn't I?
I should probably add one more thing. Orca isn't telling me in
Thunderbird either when I select text, as I hear you all saying it
should be doing.
Is there possibly a setting in the Orca+spacebar settings that
might be preventing this from working, if I had unchecked? I
confess, guilty as charged, I'm really running out of things here
to try.
Chris.
On 2/18/2018 4:28 AM, Edhoari Setiyoso
wrote:
Ok, lets try another approach
If your system 32-bit, use this link
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest-ssl&os=linux&lang=en-US
If it's 64 bit, use this link
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US
That's download link from Mozilla. After downloading, with
terminal navigate to download folder, extract it.
I assume you're familiar with linux, but I will write down the
steps anyway
- tar -xf firefox-52.6.0esr.tar.bz2
- cd firefox
- ./firefox
It should get it up and running. Check if your selection
problem is gone with 52 ESR.
If everything is working, create a symbolic link
- sudo ln -s [yourFirefoxESRDirectory]/firefox
/usr/local/bin/firefox-esr
Then you can use Alt+F2 and type firefox-esr
Best Regards
Edhoari Setiyoso
On 02/18/2018 01:57 PM, Christopher
Gilland wrote:
OK, so, I think I got the PPA repo added, but now, when I do:
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr
it tells me there is no installation candidate.
Yes, I did remember first to do:
sudo apt-get update
So, I'm not totally sure what is going on. Any suggestions?
Chris.
On 2/18/2018 12:14 AM, Edhoari
Setiyoso wrote:
Hi Chris,
Perhaps you would like to try fall back plan using Firefox
52 ESR and see how it works.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/firefox-esr
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-esr
After installed, you can press Alt+F2, type firefox-esr and
press enter.
If it works then you may create shortcut afterward.
From what I know, the newer version Firefox still has some
accessibility issues but they're working on it.
Hope this helps
Edhoari Setiyoso
On 02/18/2018 06:57 AM,
Christopher Gilland wrote:
Wo, then I'm above you. I'm running 3.26.0. not 3.18
anything.
This is indeed Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Desktop, and Firefox
version 57.0.1 64 bit. The steps I'm using to try
selecting text are:
1. Navigate to a website of my choice, and be sure I'm in
browse mode, not focus mode.
2. go to the beginning of a line of text by arrowing down
to the line of text, then pressing home to get to the
beginning of the line.
3. Press shift+down arrow to select that line of text.
Expected result, Orca should read to me what is selected.
Actual result, text indeed is selected, but Orca is still
remaining silent.
So yeah, if some of you are actually getting this to work
where Orca isn't silent, and does indeed ell you what is
happening as you select, then I've no idea how you're
getting it to work with Orca 3.26.0
Realize this is not Orca Master or anything of sort.
That's why I said, I don't know how to update it, but was
hoping you all could give me the exact commands based on
my above configuration.
Also, if my problem is that Firefox needs updating for
this to work, then I'll need those commands, as I
admittedly don't know how to update Firefox short of doing
so through apt, or through software center which both
clame it's totally up to date.
Chris.
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