Re: [orca-list] clickable item strangeness

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

If it fails the first time but not the second, it could have something
to do with Chromium itself, which gives an imprecise location of
objects the first time. I'll see if I can improve the situation on that
front.

In the meantime: A bisect is only useful to find regressions. Are you
saying that there was a point where Orca always reliably clicked on
clickables in Chromium? Or that it has always been flaky?

--joanie

On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 12:45 -0400, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> Trying to activate clickable items using Chromium 85.0 and orca
> master, 
> I am noticing that sometimes I have to simulate a click on the item
> a 
> second time before it activates. I'm not trying to do it from the
> list 
> of clickable items, but from the simulated mouse click (keypad
> slash) 
> function. At other times, the item is reported as "not found,"
> although 
> I'm not sure in those situations whether it is actually clicked ...
> it 
> does seem as though it does eventually get clicked, but I can't say
> for 
> sure. I'm not entirely sure whether this bug is only affecting
> Chromium 
> or if Firefox is also affected, as I have only needed to do this 
> frequently using Chromium. I have noticed this since I started using 
> Chromium on a regular basis, but thought it may have been related to 
> some of the slowness that I had experienced intermittently in older 
> versions of Orca, and especially the huge performance regression I 
> helped find in later versions, but even as well as it is performing
> now, 
> I still see this behavior. Hopefully we can track this one down as
> well, 
> although this may be somewhat more difficult, as I don't have a
> known 
> good commit to start a bisect. Thanks very much for any help.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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