Hey Nimer.
That's not the right file. That's your source of Orca; I need your
settings. In your home directory, you should have a .local directory. In
that a share directory. And in that, an orca directory with a few files
and directories in it.
Thanks again, and sorry for any confusion!
--joanie
On 2/14/19 1:02 PM, Nimer Jaber wrote:
> Responses below. Thank you for your help.
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:41 AM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com
> <mailto:jdiggs igalia com>> wrote:
>
> Hey Nimer. Responses inline.
>
> On 2/14/19 12:05 PM, Nimer Jaber wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I did not use the Orca find. I thought this quick find was something
> > built into Firefox?
>
> It is. So is Ctrl+F. The difference is that the toolbar that pops up
> when you use / just has an entry. The one you get when you press Ctrl+F
> has widgets to move forward/backward, highlight all, match case, etc.
>
> The reason I had mentioned what Orca does is not because it's Orca find,
> but because stuff changes on screen, Orca gets events, and Orca presents
> those events. What changes on screen is the search string gets
> highlighted. So Orca waits for that event, and then reads the line so
> that you can tell non-visually if that is the thing you were looking for
> or not. This highlighting and subsequent presentation by Orca should
> happen regardless of if you are in Firefox's quick find toolbar or
> Firefox's find in page toolbar. And I mention all this because it sounds
> a bit like what you were experiencing. In which case, I think Orca is
> doing the right thing, but if you feel otherwise (i.e. Orca should not
> be presenting the line when you use find in page or quick search), I'm
> willing to listen. :)
>
> No, I think Orca is definitely doing the right thing.
>
>
> > By persists, I mean the state that it begins speaking and speaking
> > persists after I clear search, thus making drive accessible again.
> > Really have no idea why this is... I get this behavior with an
> incognito
> > browser mode, as well as two different OS installs before any add-ons
> > are installed...
>
> Sorry for being dense, but are you saying that when you clear the search
> "thus making drive accessible again" that interacting with Google Drive
> works as expected and is presenting the correct information?
>
> Correct.
>
>
> Lastly, would you mind making a tarball of your $HOME/.local/share/orca
> file and emailing it to me privately? Just as a sanity check, I want to
> replace my settings with yours to see if that makes a difference.
> Because we're both using Fedora and Firefox without extensions and
> you're getting very different and broken-sounding results.
>
> Yes, here you go. Thank you.
> orca.tar.gz
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBImqxWb8oH8X5lGy8KjZsbFSn8wBSJU/view?usp=drive_web>
>
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
>
>
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