Re: Instantiating Firefox A11y on GNOME

[Brad Taylor <brad getcoded net>]

Hey,

> Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but I think distros
> are still having a bit of a headache getting Firefox accessibility to
> start up.  I personally am using the workaround Steve gave us here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460926#c4 on my install of
> Intrepid (Ubuntu).

David, thanks for bringing up this issue on the list.  This has been
discussed on various Bugzillas since before the winter break, and I
think this is a much better forum for getting this issue behind us.

> I'd like to see if we can solve this configuration (?) issue on list as
> it seems it may involve a coordinated effort. In particular it would be
> great it Brad and folks could connect with Ginn and folks :)

Ginn, thanks for working on this issue.  We (Novell) have been
following bmo #460926 intently, and Hubert has prepared openSUSE 11.1
packages with the fix you've provided.  I've tested this build in
concert with the atk-bridge change (that will be dropping in openSUSE
11.1 shortly) and they don't appear to fix Firefox's lack of
accessibility.  This is with a stock openSUSE 11.1 VMWare image and no
gconf changes.  Is there some component I'm missing to get this to work?

> If anyone has a recent Firefox (nightly or trunk) with accessibility
> working on a recent GNOME stack, and are NOT using the workaround above
> please let us know. If this isn't happening we may need to reopen bmo
> 460926...

To add to the list of bugs:

Novell's Firefox issue:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457728

OpenSUSE 11.1 packages are available on the above bug for those who
would like to test for us.

Red Hat's Firefox issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474680

Best,

-Brad