Re: Instantiating Firefox A11y on GNOME

[Ginn Chen <Ginn Chen Sun COM>]

Hi Brad,

I've tested on Ubuntu 8.10, the patch v3 in bmo #460926 works for  
Firefox 3.0.5 along with the atk-bridge change.

To make sure atk-bridge was updated correctly, you can download a  
nightly build of Firefox trunk or 1.9.1 branch.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.1/

Does it work on openSUSE 11.1?

If you export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 before starting Firefox, do you see  
"firefox"  or "Firefox" or nothing in accerciser?

Ginn

On Jan 17, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Brad Taylor wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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Ginn Chen
Software Engineer, Browser Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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