[orca-list] Update Re: Chromium: If you are having problems with Orca saying nothing....

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi again.

So there seems to be potentially two things going on.:

1. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1062755
   Missing accessibility events for Chromium window activation if MATE
   is being used

   This might be a MATE bug. Things work as expected in GNOME. At least
   for me.

2. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1062863
   Regression: Incorrect state on Chrome/Chromium window in MATE causes
   Orca to not present items

   The behavior being seen here might be a side effect of the previous
   item. Again, we have the right state on the window in GNOME.

My colleagues will investigate. In the meantime, even though it's 
admittedly a drag, Alt+Tabbing out of the window and back into it just 
once seems to be sufficient to cause the missing events and states to be 
correct. At least for my MATE environment.

HTH and thanks, as always for all your help and testing!
--joanie

On 3/18/20 13:46, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Based on Patrick's debug.out, those of you who are having problems with 
> the recent version of google-chrome-unstable *may* be having issues due 
> to missing events from Chromium. These events tell Orca that you are in 
> the Chromium window and also let Orca figure that out in a pinch.
>
> Because I cannot reproduce this problem yet myself, I have just 
> committed a change to Orca master which *may* work around the problem. 
> Then again it may not. Either way, I would really love a full debug.out 
> from those of you who are having the problem. Because even if I am 
> successfully working around the problem, the work around might cause 
> Orca to get sluggish on giant pages or web apps. And if I'm not, I need 
> more clues.
>
> Instructions on how to capture a full debug.out can be found at 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Debugging.
>
> I look forward to your results and giant output files. :)
>
> Thanks again!
> --joanie
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