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Re: [orca-list] page-jumping bummers with Firefox and Orca

I don't think it actually effects focus, but sometimes I do need to turn
off live region monitoring with Orca+shift+backspace.

I've had the problem occasionally where Orca will get stuck going down a
page. I don't run into it very often. When I do hit it, I try to jump
past the spot with the tab key or a hierarchical navigation key. If
needed, I may move back up the page to sneak up on the spot giving me
the problem. Maybe with the reproducible and good description you have
below, the devs will be able to pinpoint the problem.
On 17/10/12 09:19, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:



Hi, Chris.

I made the changes you suggested.  This seems to have helped on
radio.macinmind.com, though I note that it worked fine last week when I
had both settings checked.  In the Jeff Jacoby article I mentioned
earlier, it allowed me to arrow down about as far as the body of the
article but then bounced me somewhere else.

The strangest one is this:  when I returned to the www.factcheck.org
article about Elizabeth Warren's involvement in the esbestos case, I
could get as far as the line about how Scott Brown should be ashamed but
no further.  Recall that this first happened to me when I wasn't using a
find command but was doing continuous reading.

In short, your suggestions helped some, which I appreciate, but the
problem seems to have more to it.  Too bad our coffee pot's empty!

Al



On 10/17/2012 08:05 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:

Just a guess, but try turning off "Grab focus on object when navigating"
and "Automatically start speaking a page when it's first opened."

On 17/10/12 07:01, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:

Hi, Thomas.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm sorry to say that I still got bonked
to the
top.  I had been using the control-f find command, and always had to
use the
escape key to get out of finding mode.  Using the slash, I'd find what I
wanted, Orca would repeat the line twice, and I'd be back at the
top.  (I
had not hit escape.) I already needed my coffee this morning, but now
I need
it more.  :-)

Al

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Subject: Re: [orca-list] page-jumping bummers with Firefox and Orca

Hi Al,

Hmmm...I'm running Firefox 16.01 with Orca 1.4.2 and it seems to be
working
normally here. For example, I can press the slash key for Firefox find
command, type Repply into the search field, and press tab to land on the
Reply button in gmail However, if I press escape I go back to the top
of the
page. So I think the problem is pressing escape cancels the find in
Firefox.
Rather than pressing escape try tabbing to the link or arrowing up or
down
to the heading you just searched for.

HTH


On 10/16/12, Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net> wrote:

Greetings!

I've noticed the following problems especially since Sunday.  I'm
using Fedora 17, Orca 3.4.2, and Firefox 16.0.1.  (I believe Firefox
was updated last Thursday.)

First, when I've used Firefox's find command to locate something, then
hit escape to read from there, I've ended up somewhere else on the Web
page, usually near the top.  One place where it happened
intermittently is

<radio.macinmind.com>

I follow the "recent and upcoming" link, do a find on the day whose
shows I want, hit escape after finding it, and find myself at the
beginning of the page.  The same thing happened when I tried to read
an article by Jeff Jacoby on

<www.jewishworldreview.com>

I followed the link at his name, then the on under "Archives" dated
october 15, did a find on a part of the article's title, hit escape,
arrowed down once or twice, then ended up somewhere else on the page.

I apparently don't need to use the find command to have the problem.
On

<www.factcheck.org>

I started the article, also dated October 15, on the esbestos case
that Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was involved in.
I was reading with little problem until I came to the end of a quote
about How her rival, Scott Brown, "ought to be ashamed of himself" or
something (for his alleged falsehoods about her involvement in the
case).  At that point, Orca said "text" and then took me to the top of
the page.  I then used the Firefox find command to get back to where
I'd been, and once again got kicked to the top.

Has anybody else had a problem like this?  Any suggestions for solving
it will be great, maybe reducing the number of times I must jump back
on our Windows box to read some of this stuff.  :-) Thanks!

Al Sten-Clanton
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