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Re: [orca-list] Having trouble getting orca to read my webpages

Yeah this makes sense that Orca would need to be running first before another application is launched. I do similar with JAWS testing on Windows (although possibly this is no longer needed) as Firefox would adjust some internal parameters if it could tell JAWS was running already (and of course the users you are emulating would be running the screen reader first).
You won't need to continually reboot Firefox in future testing; instead, maybe set Orca to auto-start at login and then you'll always be launching Firefox afterwards.

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, at 1:13 AM, Benny Lichtner via orca-list wrote:
Thanks for the tips, Jude! I am not familiar with lynx but I'll take a look.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 1:40 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com> wrote:
Mice and many screen readers do not play nicely at all.  While working
for the Navy as a totally blind computer specialist many was the time a
control on a web page had to be activated with a physical mouse.
Keyboard clicks were not allowed.  That got changed slowly.  Forms need
correct design too so as a control is highlighted its associated label
speaks.  I don't know how well screen readers do with pages designed
according to the any browser standard but this might be useful to check.
 Do your web pages speak correctly using lynx say in a terminal window
since you use gui?  If you find problems in lynx, I think a high
probability exists you'll have problems in orca.

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de Souza wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:19:04
> From: Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>
> To: Benny Benny <bennlich gmail com>,
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Having trouble getting orca to read my webpages
>
> For now Orca and Chromium are not friends, only FF would work.
>
> But I can't imagine a reason why the orca doesn't read the page.
>
>
> Questions?
>
> 1. Orca is muted on any page including for example the google page?
>
> 2. Are you using the mouse or keyboard?
>
> 3. What version of orca and FF?
>
> 4. If you restart orca does the problem persist?
>
> 5. Is remote access to these pages possible?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 9/30/19 3:29 PM, Benny Benny via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi, there. I'm a sighted web developer new to orca and accessibility. I'm
> > trying to get orca to read my web pages and help me with accessibility
> > testing.
> >
> > When I enable orca in my system preferences, it speaks various things to me
> > as I switch windows and enter different applications. This is good.
> >
> > However, as soon as I make firefox or chromium my active application, orca
> > doesn't seem to want to speak to me anymore. It's stays quiet as I navigate
> > around, even if I've enabled caret nav in firefox. As soon as I alt-tab,
> > orca starts speaking again.
> >
> > Any tips for how to get orca to start speaking websites to me?
> >
> > I'm running Debian Buster w/ GNOME.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > --Benny
> >
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>

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