GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 511563
Orca isn't working well when viewing sourceforge
Last modified: 2008-02-12 18:57:51 UTC
On the Orca list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey all, I seem to be having trouble accessing www.sourceforge.com with Orca. Tabbing through links does not work at all. Also, navigating by object with Orca left/right arrows is really weird. I hear for example "login link grayed." and "create account link grayed."If I navigate by object far enough to the right, I get stuck at the first text field. and further attempts to navigate by object results in Orca saying "new, text, m." It gets stuck right there. I'm also having this problem on my Ubuntu test laptop as well as the Gentoo desktop. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can confirm this on sourceforge.net (sourceforge.com works for me) both with the current Orca from trunk as well as the "pre-performance-enhancement Orca". Something funky is definitely going on. :-(
We are uber-blocked. :-( When one tabs we get focus events for objects of ROLE_INVALID. This is why we don't speak them. The bogus objects (which lack state sensitive) also explain why we're saying "grayed" when one arrows among them. I filed this bug against Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413777 I haven't triaged the stuckage-related issue yet, but we have some known issues on that front that are the result of the new line navigation. I'll address this part of the bug as part of those fixes.
Retargeting to FUTURE as I cannot do anything about the blockage (including hacking effectively around the issue "in the meantime"). :-( As previously commented, stuckage is being addressed as part of the other line nav bugs.
The blocking bug has been marked as fixed and we now speak items being tabbed to at sourceforge. Closing as NOTGNOME.