Re: Firefox problems

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Alastair:

Screen reader access to any slightly complex page via Firefox 1.5 is
very dicey.  The caret navigation model is very very basic and is of use
to people with physical impairments to allow for cut/paste operations.
I've personally found the navigation model to be a challenge, however,
primarily due to the erratic nature of how the caret sometimes jumps all
over the place and how it sometimes seemingly refuses to let you scroll.

Some work has been done with Firefox 2.0 to improve the situation, but
most of the improvements to Firefox accessibility are being done for
Firefox 3.0 via joint collaboration between Sun and IBM.  Firefox 3.0 is
due to be done Q1 of 2007.  Intermediate builds will always be available
between now and then, giving screen reader developers and end users the
chance to improve usability and flush out as many bugs as possible.

Hope this helps,

Will


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 19:22 +0100, Alastair Irving wrote:
>  
> Hello
>  
> I have recently tried to use firefox with orca 0.2.5 on my fedora core
> 5 machine.  With both firefox 1.5.04 and the latest daily build of
> 1.5.05, I have the following two problems:
>  
> 1 Firefox will only load if I am route.  This is the case whether orca
> is loaded or not.  No error messages are given, just nothing happens.
>  
> 2 When entering a URL or entering something into a form, the cursor
> jumps about irratically.  For example, if I type www. the cursor then
> jumps back to the beginning of the edit box, and I have to press end
> to keep entering the URL.  This has to be repeated after every . or /.
> There seems to be some link between whether I have caret mode enabled
> and this, but it is not very consistent.
>  
> Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, has any solution been
> found?  
>  
>  
> Alastair Irving
> e-mail (and MSN): alastairirving19 hotmail com
>  
>  
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