Ok, for me text selection in gmail messages in Chromium is now a lot
more performant. I still see a tiny (about half a second) when first
starting the selection, and I will look into that next. But I can no
longer reproduce the multi-second lag. Please try again with master and
see if it's similarly improved for you.
Thanks!
--joanie
On 3/12/20 09:07, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
> It doesn't appear to be a regression. Selecting text on other websites
> in Chrome unstable works fine.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:37 AM Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com
> <mailto:jdiggs igalia com>> wrote:
>
> 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>
> > <mailto: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>
> <http://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>>
> <http://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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