Re: [orca-list] trouble with web-site

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

OK, I went to the URL you gave and in my case, Firefox 3.5.9 was used
but I did observe a similar situation.  Frankly, I've never seen this
kind of thing happen before.  My cursor didn't get stuck or sent back
to the top,  but the day labels would start speaking over and over
again at given points.  For the most part, I was reading down line by
line and the stuff would staart talking like that but as soon as I
pressed an arrow key, that repeted speech would stop and I could
continue reading.  For your caret sticking, I'd still look at the
"Focus grabbing" option in Orca as I described in my last message and
make sure it is unchecked for FF 3.6 and above.

The one thing I did notice however, might have something to do with
live regions.  I was sitting there for a moment doing nothing and all
of a sudden, the day labels started speaking again; it was almost if
they are being continuously refreshed like a scoreboard or something.
I'll bet that auto refreshing effect may be causing the repeating
speech we're running into on this site.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:24:41AM -0400, aerospace1028 hotmail com wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm having trouble using orca with a particular website.  When I try to read articles on The Space Review 
> using orca's read-to-end-of-document (orca key + ;) feature, before orca reaches the end of the article, it 
> starts sputtering out time stamps and returns focus to the top of the article.
>
> For example if I navigate to http://thespacereview.com/article/1646/1 and press the "h" key to jump to the 
> header at the top of the article, then down arrow passed the byline to the start of the feature itself, 
> then press orca+; orca starts reading the article as one would expect, but about five or six paragraphs 
> after the sub-heading (about lessons learned from the F-1), orca switches tracks and starts saying "1 day 
> ago, 23 hours ago, 11 hours ago ..."  I've tried letting it go and see if it ever recovers but it seems to 
> go on forever.  If I press the Control key to int erupt speech, focus appears to revert to the top heading 
> at the start of the article.
>
> I figure the "1 day ago, 23 hours ago ..." bit refers to the time-stamps on the reader-posted comments 
> following the article.
>
> I'm using orca 2.30.1 on the gnome desktop and firefox 3.6.3 as provided by the archlinux repositories.  
> Under the firefox specific setting of the orca dialog, I have the "start reading web-pages as soon as 
> they're loaded" disabled.
>
> (A) can anyone else confirm this behavior with orca?
>
> (B) does anyone know if there are any settings (in firefox or orca) that would alleviate this 
> problem--allow orca to finish reading the article without int eruption.
>
> (C) Is this a known issue?  Do other sites that provide updates to page-content also interfere with orca's 
> reading?  Should I open a bug-report/feature-request ?
>
> Thank you:-)                                    
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