[orca-list] Orca, tables and wiki possible bugs

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

This is related, and I've run into it while researching yesterday on Wikipedia, but I don't know for sure if it's an Orca issue, tables issue, Wikipedia issue, or.....

So, I was researching tornadoes yesterday to settle an argument, I went to the 'Tornadoes of 2012' page, and then went to a list (say the list from Januray to February). Now, here's the issues.

1. The page is a cluttered mess, this isn't really Orca's fault, it's how the tables are laid out. However.....

Reading a whole row does not work, it sticks at a cell. For example, it's laid out like this

EF# Location County/parish State

For example

EF0 Nowhere Nowhere County Example state

Now, the problem is this, and it may well be how the tables are set upp, and it may be me not getting how Orca handles tables....but I assumed Orca would read the full row if I selected that. Instead, it only reads one cell, for instance the Nowhere for location, then stops when it should read the whole scroll

Secondly, Orca can get stuck on links, however I'm 99% sure that's an issue with Wikipedia's site and layout. I've had instances where, in the aformentioned tables, Orca won't scroll past a link, I have to hit the arrow multiple times.

To replicate, go to any big table list, I just used the list of US tornadoes as an example, and scroll around

On 30/04/2019 14:46, kendell clark via orca-list wrote:

Hi all

This is embarrassing, but I never even considered that the “bug” could not be a bug at all but a result of my relatively slow laptop. I’’m not positive of that so for now I’m still sure it is a bug in something, either orca or the website, but if more people can’t confirm it, I’ll be forced to conclude it was something in either my laptop or my OS. As long as I’ve been on the Linux scene, I really should do better than this. Specs for my laptop are below

Processor, quad core intel 3218U, 4 gb ddr3 ram, 256gb ssd. Ubuntu 19.04 with a ton of software, although I don’t think, though I’m not positive, that would have any impact on orca’s performance.

 

Thanks

Kendell Clark

 

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: kendell clark
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 7:49 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: yet another site that orca doesn't like

 

hi all

 

I'm not usually in the habbit of reporting websites that orca doesn't

like much since joanie tends to get annoyed with me if the bugs aren't

orca bugs but bugs in the website, and rightly so, since getting website

admins to fix their sites is usually a long drawn out process, at least

in my experience. But this site is exceptionally bad with orca. The site

is instacart, a grocery delivery service that uses local grocery stores

to deliver food to your house over the internet. The site is

http://www.instacart.com, and you don't need an account to check the

site out. There are no specific reproduceable issues with orca, no

particular thing causes orca to act up, but the site is generally

sluggish with orca, slow to respond, although it is usable, if a bit

slow. This is with latest orca built from master yesterday, orca reports

it's version as 3.33.2 pre. This is on ubuntu mate 19.04, all updates

applied as of ten minutes ago. This is with firefox, latest version in

ubuntu, version 66.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1

 

thanks

 

Kendell Clark

 

 

 

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