GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 363242
Yelp inaccessible if started *after* orca starts
Last modified: 2008-07-22 19:20:58 UTC
If orca is started after yelp starts, one can navigate around it using Orca. If yelp starts *after* orca starts, however, navigating around is doesn't result in any speech or braille updates. Very very odd. Yelp is odd, however, in that it is somewhat psychotic and changes its application name midstream. This might be a source of the problem.
Created attachment 74980 [details] [review] Patch to handle bizzarro yelp app name and id change behavior It turns out yelp not only changes its name, but its application id changes as well. This patch listens for a focus: event on a frame (luckily, yelp is doing that) and then make the app script associated with that be the active script. As a workaround until this patch is in wider use, users can also Alt+Tab away from the yelp window and Alt+Tab back into it. That will help accomplish the same thing.