Re: [orca-list] Orca and snap

[Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>]

I filed a bug against fire fox. The bug number is 194-8954, if anyone wants to say that it affects them, or 
post any comments. Thanks for all your help, and input.

Guy


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> On Oct 27, 2021, at 8:30 AM, Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> I just tried a snap here, and it is accessible, at least on Fedora. My guess is that it works on Ubuntu as 
> well. It would appear that what I read about the firefox snap packager getting the bright idea to turn off 
> accessibility was actually correct, and that a bug should be filed against the snap. The work-around would 
> be to be able to specify accessibility flags on the firefox command line the first time you start it, but I 
> don't think Firefox has this ability. Either that, or the desktop launcher isn't picking up something it 
> needs from your environment, but this is also a bug that would need to be fixed in the snap.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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