Re: [orca-list] Orca master and selecting web content in Firefox/Chrome
- From: Andy Borka <sonfire11 gmail com>
- To: Orca List <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca master and selecting web content in Firefox/Chrome
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:07:51 -0400
It doesn't appear to be a regression. Selecting text on other websites in Chrome unstable works fine.
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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