GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 519931
Orca does not read certain news feeds correctly.
Last modified: 2008-03-06 19:11:22 UTC
Please describe the problem: Since version 2.21 of Orca, I cannot read the news feed of the German newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau". The headlines and the publishing date were displayed, but the overview is not readable with the cursor. You need the flat review keys to read it. Note: I read my feeds with FF3. Till version 2.20.x of Orca everything was OK. So something must have happened either with Orca, or the additional updates of the accessibility software (at-spi, atk and gail) have changed something. Note: All my other feeds are readable, among them other newspapers. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open FF3 2. go for example to: http://www.fr-online.de/rss/nachrichten/index.xml 3. Read the feed by using the cursor keys. You will find the overview lines empty. Use the flat review keys, and you can read them. Actual results: You will find, that you cannot read the feed properly. Expected results: That the feed is displayed correctly, so you can easily read through the page using the cursor keys. Does this happen every time? It's reproducable. Other information:
Confirmed. We're getting hung up on the large images on the same line at beginning of each story (which are probably not present on your other feeds). :-( Let me see what I can figure out. Thanks for the report!
Created attachment 106443 [details] [review] proposed patch This patch seems to solve the reported problem along with another one (see our wacky nested table regression test). In terms of the other regression tests, there is one difference: On the bugzilla related pages, we currently treat "Home link image bugzilla" as one line and "New bug link" through "log out link" as being on a separate line. With this patch, we treat it all as one line. Looking at it visually, the home link image is tall and thus on the same line as Bugzilla and as the line of links which begins with New Bug. So, arguably, this current treatment is a bug which is being fixed. :-) Still, I'd like input on that one. Given that this is, as Hermann pointed out, a regression from 2-20, it would be nice to check in a fix in time for 2-22 (code freeze in less than 24 hours if I'm calculating my UTC correctly). Mike, how do you feel about our treating the bugzilla stuff as being on one line? Also, please test. Thanks! (already pylinted)
In private chat Joanie just described the appearance of the bugzilla line in question. Now that I know what it looks like I think the new presentation is correct.
Just tested this. WOrks great! thanks much
I found another example where an image spans multiple lines of text (the FrankfurterRundschau FR-online.de image on Hermann's feed site spans the line for the FR - Politik heading 1 and the FR - Politik heading 2). We may have to become more clever about what do do when it comes to presenting such content. Rather than hold off on fixing the feed bug until such cleverness strikes me... Hermann, the patch has been committed both to the gnome-2-22 branch as well as to trunk. That should solve your immediate problem hopefully. I opened bug 520029 so that when cleverness strikes w.r.t. the multi-line images I have a patch to which to attach the results. :-) Moving to pending.
It's OK, I can read my news feeds again, thanks to Joanie! I cannot figure out what's wrong with headings 1 and 2 on the side, I use to skip them by pressing 3 to move to the first story. But I noticed that Orca gets stuck on that bar asking to subscribe the feed using one of several external apps or use dynamic bookmarks. Perhaps a problem for a person, who doesn't know this feed very well; I now know it by heart :-)
As this patch does fix the reported problem I'm verifying this bug. I do see the behavior Hermann is reporting with moving to heading level 3 when the page first loads. This is because focus is actually on a combobox. If you move focus away from the combobox and into the HTML content heading navigation seems to work fine.