No worries, and thanks! The bad news is that with your settings,
arrowing around in Google Drive still causes me to hear the selected
file. Mystery problems are such a drag....
--joanie
On 2/15/19 11:50 AM, Nimer Jaber via orca-list wrote:
> Not sure what I was thinking, of course that isn't the right
> directory... Sorry about that... Here you go.
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:24 AM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com
> <mailto:jdiggs igalia com>> wrote:
>
> 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>
> > <mailto: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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> >
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>
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>
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