Re: [orca-list] clickable item strangeness

[<prayner unimelb edu au>]

I quite frequently get a "location not found" message from orca with
google-chrome-unstable, sometimes when loading a page sometimes when
simulating a click (e.g. kp-/). Don't know if that's related.
cheers
Peter

Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> Hmmmm. I just made a change in my local copy of Orca to see if I could
> improve the situation by re-requesting the coordinates to be clicked
> on. But I always get the same coordinates. Thus that doesn't appear to
> be the problem. At least not for my test cases.
>
> Therefore it would be helpful to see a full debug.out -- or perhaps a
> couple. For instance, a single debug.out in which you get the message
> "not found". And then a different debug.out in which Orca doesn't
> complain, but also doesn't click on the desired object.
>
> Thanks again!
> --joanie
>
> On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 11:37 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 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.
> > =20
> > 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?
> > =20
> > --joanie
> > =20
> > 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,=20
> > > I am noticing that sometimes I have to simulate a click on the item
> > > a=20
> > > second time before it activates. I'm not trying to do it from the
> > > list=20
> > > of clickable items, but from the simulated mouse click (keypad
> > > slash)=20
> > > function. At other times, the item is reported as "not found,"
> > > although=20
> > > I'm not sure in those situations whether it is actually clicked ...
> > > it=20
> > > does seem as though it does eventually get clicked, but I can't say
> > > for=20
> > > sure. I'm not entirely sure whether this bug is only affecting
> > > Chromium=20
> > > or if Firefox is also affected, as I have only needed to do this=20
> > > frequently using Chromium. I have noticed this since I started
> > > using=20
> > > Chromium on a regular basis, but thought it may have been related
> > > to=20
> > > some of the slowness that I had experienced intermittently in
> > > older=20
> > > versions of Orca, and especially the huge performance regression I=20
> > > helped find in later versions, but even as well as it is performing
> > > now,=20
> > > I still see this behavior. Hopefully we can track this one down as
> > > well,=20
> > > although this may be somewhat more difficult, as I don't have a
> > > known=20
> > > good commit to start a bisect. Thanks very much for any help.
> > > =20
> > > ~Kyle
> > > =20
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> > Orca documentation: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wBLMC81ZRAS6BqqEnI2=
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> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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