Re: [orca-list] Issue with Orca and Firefox 60

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Ok, I can reproduce that. I'll take a look. Thanks!
--joanie

On 05/15/2018 02:55 PM, Andy Borka wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am using Ubuntu Mate 18.04 with Orca 3.28 and firefox 60.0. Selecting
> any text in a browser window causes Orca to go silent during the
> selection process. Pressing SHIFT+END sometimes gets Orca to say the
> selected line. However, pressing SHIFT+ARROW KEYS forces Orca to go
> silent during the selection process.
>
>
> 1. Go to www.google.com
>
> 2. Do a search for something "seeing eye dogs" was the search I used.
>
> 3. From the first search result, press and hold SHIFT, then press DOWN
> ARROW to select multiple lines of text.
>
>
> expected result: Orca announces the selected text as it is selected.
>
> Actual result: Orca goes silent even though text is selected.
>
>
> Let me know if there is anything else you need and how to get it since I
> am fairly new to Ubuntu.
>
>
>
> On 05/15/2018 09:07 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Andy.
> >
> > The Document Web thing should already be fixed. I didn't realize there
> > was a problem announcing selected text as that works for me. If you can
> > reliably reproduce it please provide more specific details.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 05/15/2018 08:37 AM, Andy Borka wrote:
> > > Agree with this. It can get somewhat annoying. Another bug is Orca not
> > > announcing selected text as it is selected.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/15/2018 07:40 AM, Jason SW wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I looked at the list archives, and I didn't see this reported there.
> > > > I'm not sure if this is an Orca bug or a Firefox bug, but when using
> > > > Orca 3.28.1 and Firefox 60, Orca says "document web" when trying to
> > > > read some blocks of text, sometimes also followed by one or more blank
> > > > lines.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
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