Re: [orca-list] menus in google apps suddenly inaccessible in Chromium

[kk's Programming Hub <kkproghub gmail com>]

yes I was very sure that this is not a bug in Orca as I previously observed.

I hope your fix is incorporated soon.

On 04/02/22 14:40, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> I landed a fix in Chromium.
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1287066
>
> This is not an Orca bug nor something I can work around in Orca. When
> events go completely missing, Orca doesn't have any way of knowing that
> anything has changed like where you are in a menu.
>
> Sorry!
> --joanie
>
> On Fri, 2022-02-04 at 12:02 +0530, kk's Programming Hub via orca-list
> wrote:
> > I was just checking after updates.
> >
> > It's still the same.
> >
> > Orca version is 41.1 (I haven't updated since it's my work station ).
> >
> > I guess the problem was with Chromium because in the past the menus
> > were
> > accessible with same version of Orca.
> >
> > On 13/01/22 11:10, kk's Programming Hub wrote:
> > > hello all.
> > >
> > > This sounds all strange to me.
> > >
> > > I am sure this is not an Orca bug but just making sure.
> > >
> > > Since a couple of days, menus in google apps like Sheets and Slides
> > > are
> > > totally inaccessible.
> > >
> > > For example if I press alt_shift+ f for fline in sheets, Orca does
> > > not
> > > announce anything when I use up and down arrows.
> > >
> > > Orca version is 41.1 and Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04 is 9.7.
> > >
> > > Till two days back everything was fine.
> > >
> > > I I must mention here that I haven't accessed menus for quite a
> > > long
> > > time and don't know if somehting was broken.
> > >
> > > But since last two days when I did start using again, this is
> > > happening
> > > for sure.
> > >
> > > Accessibility support is enabled.
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