Re: [orca-list] Heads-up: WebKitGtk 2.36 may not be a great idea at themoment

[Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>]

I forgot to add, I just upgraded to the latest long-term support release of Ubuntu. That is version 22.04.

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> On May 17, 2022, at 8:38 AM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
>
> Hey all.
>
> This is a good-news/bad-news sort of announcement. The good news is
> that a lot of work is taking place to improve WebKitGtk accessibility
> which will eventually make it possible for me to port Orca's WebKitGtk
> support to what is used for Gecko and Chromium/Chrome.
>
> The bad news is that some of that work has landed in WebKitGtk 2.36,
> and there are bugs. For instance, what Orca needs to perform structural
> navigation (e.g. move to next heading, get a list of links, etc.) is
> totally broken and will need to be fixed on the WebKitGtk side of
> things. I'll be filing bugs against WebKitGtk to get those things
> fixed. And in the meantime I'll be handling things as best I can in
> Orca (master, gnome-42, and gnome-40).
>
> So.... If you are in a position where you can use WebKitGtk 2.34, that
> would be my recommendation for the near future.
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience!
> --joanie
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