[orca-list] Question: How should Orca announce elements inside anchor tags in Firefox?

[Parham Doustdar <parham90 gmail com>]

Hi,

Some time ago, I created an issue on the Orca issue tracker regarding 
Orca's treatment of links. A lot of times, when you are on a website, a 
link isn't announced as a link because it's another element inside a 
link. For example, if you have an HTML like this:

<a href="whatever"><span>Some text</span></a>

Orca would only say "some text" rather than "some text link". Naturally, 
this doesn't tell me I can click on this link using the enter key. 
However, Joanie has correctly mentioned the fact that for Orca to do 
this, it'd have to climb the accessibility tree to get to see if this 
element has an anchor parent. Understandably, this would incur a 
performance penalty in Firefox. However, not having it makes web 
navigation tricky.

I'm looking to see if anyone has a solution for this. This does happen 
on Windows without a performance hit, but it could have something to do 
with Windows and its different accessibility stack. This is one of the 
things that makes me have to constantly switch to a Windows screen 
reader to browse the website first, get familiar with it, and then 
switch back to Orca. I would prefer not to have to do this.

Thanks all!