Re: [orca-list] Orca master and selecting web content in Firefox/Chrome

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

So I can partially reproduce this. I can reproduce the fact that Orca 
isn't saying that the Gmail link isn't selected. But visually it doesn't 
appear to be selected.

The current situation is this: Because ATK/AT-SPI2 do not appear to be 
well suited for selections which span multiple objects, Orca does not 
control selection; instead it relies upon the browser's selection 
functionality to work and reports what the browser reports is selected. 
When you're in text-heavy documents such as wikipedia articles, this 
tends to work well enough. But on pages which were never meant to be 
navigated via caret (e.g. google.com's search page), all bets tend to be 
off. Sorry!

This is a big issue that we (me, you, Google Accessibility, Mozilla 
Accessibility) are all aware of. Hopefully we'll all collaborate on a 
solution in the near future.

Again, sorry I cannot just quickly fix this one for you!

On 3/10/20 14:59, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Orca has a problem announcing selected text in Firefox and Chrome. 
> Selection changes are announced for a time, then Orca stops announcing 
> the selection changes.
>
>  1. In Firefox or Chrome, go to www.google.com <http://www.google.com>
>  2. Make sure screen layout mode is turned off.
>  3. Try selecting the about, store, and gmail links
>
> Actual results: Orca may announce the about link is selected, but stops 
> announcing selection changes afterwords.
> Expected results: Orca announces the selection changes no matter the 
> content being selected.
>
> Orca master, Ubuntu 20.04, Chrome unstable, Firefox 74.0
>
>
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