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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Ok, will take a look later today. In the meantime, does this lag appear 
to be a regression (as I've made a bunch of changes related to 
contenteditable content in the past month)?

Thanks!
--joanie

On 3/12/20 08:07, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> Selecting the following lines out of your original reply caused some 
> serious lag in Orca. The selected lines are the following:
> 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.
>
> I had to wait up to 3 seconds for Orca to announce each selected line. 
> Using Ubuntu 20.04, Orca master, Google Chrome unstable.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:17 PM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com 
> <mailto:jdiggs igalia com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://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> <http://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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