RE: gnopernicus 0.10.4 + Firefox 1.0.7 not talking

["Jason Grieves" <jasongrieves hotmail com>]

Hello,

I went ahead and compiled the latest RC2 for firefox 1.5 for linux and AIX,
using pretty much the same flags (using the xlC compiler for AIX with a few
specific XLC options) in linux things seemed to work fine and I can "poke"
all widgets and use gnopernicus to navigate web pages.  The AIX version DID
have the accessibility flags (as far as I could tell) and yet all I am able
to poke is the top menu bar and the Panel.  This is even after exporting the
GTK_MODULES=atk-bridge:gail.  When that is not exported, firefox-bin does
not even show up in at-poke.  

There is no errors about accessibility in logs.  I have the gnome 2.10
packages installed. 

I also wanted to thank those who have been making firefox more accessible.
Very good to have this excellent browser begin to make headway for disabled
users in Linux.

Any help would be appreciated,

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Korn [mailto:Peter Korn Sun COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:01 AM
To: Bill Haneman
Cc: Jason Grieves; gnome-accessibility-list gnome org; Louie Zhao
Subject: Re: gnopernicus 0.10.4 + Firefox 1.0.7 not talking

Hi Jason,

To expand on Bill's comments below, the Sun mozilla/firefox accessibility
team 
has begun working specifically on firefox accessibility.  Louie Zhao <louie 
dot zhao at Sun dot com> is one of the key folks working on this.  I've
cc-ed 
him on this message.

You wrote in your original message (attached) that you aren't getting
anything 
in the firefox you compiled for AIX, but are getting output from Ubuntu.  I 
believe there are specific compile-time flags needed to turn on some of the 
accessibility machinery - Louie should be able to confirm this.

We've just begun tracking Firefox accessibility bugs; you can find our short

firefox-specific list at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_ty
pe=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Firefox&component=Disability%20Access&
version=Trunk&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwords
substr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard
=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&resolution=---&op_sys=Linux&emailassigned
_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa
_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfiel
dfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0
=&order=bugs.bug_id&query_based_on=

For more information, please see the UNIX mozilla home page at: 
http://www.mozilla.org/access/unix/


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Jason.
> 
> I'm asking around about what should be expected from Firefox.  As you 
> say, it seems it should be expected to talk. Perhaps you can provide 
> some information from either Firefox or gnopernicus output.
> 
> There are plans to bring accessibility fixes into Firefox, but I don't 
> know the current status of that work.  Certainly the goal is to improve 
> access of Firefox overall, beyond what today's Sun-Mozilla build can do.
> Bill
> 
> Jason Grieves wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> But even in Ubuntu firefox talks.  Though caret navigation isn't as 
>> good as what JAWS does today, its still better than nothing.
>>
>> The Accessiblity Modfied Mozilla  will solve this problem?  Is there 
>> plans to bring the fixes into Firefox?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason 
> 
> 
> 
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