Re: [orca-list] Orca and multiple tabs in firefox

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Øyvind.

I've committed a change to Orca master to announce page tab switches.
But for that to work as expected, you'll need Firefox Nightly. With
Firefox 57, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. With firefox-esr
52, presentation happens after the document location because that is
when Firefox tells Orca you've switched tabs.

Regarding text selection changes, that works for me using firefox-esr52,
but not firefox 57 or Nightly. This appears to be a regression in
Firefox. Basically, Orca is no longer being told about selection
changes. I've filed a bug for that here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429808

Sorry I can't just say, "all fixed." But hopefully it will become that
way when the text-selection Firefox bug is addressed.

--joanie

On 12/14/2017 10:01 AM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> I've found that Orca and firefox does not work as expected regarding
> multiple open tabs in firefox.
>
> On windows 10, nvda 2017.4 and firefox 57 and chrome 63 it's a snappy
> and smooth experience.
> On Linux with Orca is slow and Orca does not speak which tab I move to
> when pressing ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab.
> Orca also have trouble to remember where focus was in a particular tab.
> I had gmail open in one tab and I were composing a message and I also
> had wiki.debian.org/accessibility open to copy / paste into an email.
>
> I tried with both firefox-esr 52 and firefox 57 with orca 3.26.0 on
> debian sid with mate 1.18.
>
> I also tried to select multiple lines but orca did not read which
> lines I selected when I pressed shift and down arrow, so I quickly
> lost track of what I've selected.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Øyvind
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