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Bug 665820 - Orca cannot get past bogus objects in Gecko and just says "grayed"
Orca cannot get past bogus objects in Gecko and just says "grayed"
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
: 668699 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 404403
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-08 21:34 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2012-02-03 16:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2011-12-08 21:34:45 UTC
From a private email:

~~~~~~~~~~~
go here: 

http://www.wsmonline.com

My girlfriend's machine will absolutely puke on this page.  
It is one of her favorite radio station sites, but now she 
cannot use it.
~~~~~~~~~~~

I just took a quick look at this page with Orca. We get stuck near the top at an object of ROLE_UNKNOWN whose reported index is -1. This seems like a broken accessible hierarchy to me. I will add it to my to-triage list. In the meantime, other examples are welcome here.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2011-12-08 21:37:44 UTC
One more data point: When navigating on this page I get a ton of the following being spit out to the terminal:

(firefox:27351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Comment 2 Dave Hunt 2011-12-08 22:59:26 UTC
Here's another example:
Visit http://dangerouslymonkey.tumblr.com/post/13937230649/thedailywhat-movie-trailer-of-the-day-first  and navigate to the link for the embedded youtube video with 'tab', and press 'enter'.  Orca will say "html content  grayed", then be rendered speechless.  Attempts to switch out of this tab or to another running application do not correct this.  Attempts to restart Orca with "orca --replace", in the 'run dialogue', also give no satisfaction.  To restore speech, I logged into another console, and killed the offending firefox instance.  Orca spat out a bunch of stuff, as if I'd been entering a pile of navigation keystrokes.
Comment 3 Trevor Saunders (IRC: tbsaunde) 2011-12-14 07:17:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Here's another example:
> Visit
> http://dangerouslymonkey.tumblr.com/post/13937230649/thedailywhat-movie-trailer-of-the-day-first
>  and navigate to the link for the embedded youtube video with 'tab', and press
> 'enter'.  Orca will say "html content  grayed", then be rendered speechless. 
> Attempts to switch out of this tab or to another running application do not
> correct this.  Attempts to restart Orca with "orca --replace", in the 'run
> dialogue', also give no satisfaction.  To restore speech, I logged into another
> console, and killed the offending firefox instance.  Orca spat out a bunch of
> stuff, as if I'd been entering a pile of navigation keystrokes.

what happens if you kill plugin-container, which contains the flash plugin?

I've noticed this on a lot of  youtube sites, and after killing plugin-container  the problem seems to go away for me, and it appears orca was stuck near where the flash died message appears.

I also notice the effects are slightly different with at-spi1,  orca just becomes silent and doesn't even say grey.

This all makes me wonder if this is all somehow fallout from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480317

hopefully I'll be free from school in a couple days and can  try reverting that bug and testing, or I can give someone  help if they want to try :-)
Comment 4 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-01-27 14:23:45 UTC
From bug 668699 comment #3:

> Another  link where the problem can be reproduced.
> http://freshtutorial.com/create-your-own-wifi-hotspot-in-ubuntu-11-10/
Comment 5 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-01-27 14:31:42 UTC
From bug  668699 comment #2:

> I found a public page where the problem can be reproduced.
> http://www.noobslab.com/2011/12/install-firefox-9-on-ubuntu.html

> Try scroll in that page using down arrow until you hear grayed and then press
> right arrow.
Comment 6 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-01-27 16:36:24 UTC
*** Bug 668699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Trevor Saunders (IRC: tbsaunde) 2012-01-30 21:40:55 UTC
I believe this is fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718990 additional testing would be great.
Comment 8 Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza 2012-01-30 22:23:49 UTC
Seems that the correction will be applied in FF12.
Is it true?
Comment 9 Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza 2012-02-03 16:46:18 UTC
I don't know if I used the correct version of firefox in my test.

Version  11.0a2 (2012-02-01) presents the same problem when acessing http://www.multimediaboom.com/google-translator-desktop-app-for-ubuntu/
boom.com/google-translator-desktop-app-for-ubuntu/