Re: [orca-list] Does Orca not respect role="application" on anything other than body elements?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Nolan.

Understood. And I've put addressing this on my to-do list.

I trust that your application is going to handle the key events, right?
Because if Orca's focus mode kicks in, that just means it won't
reposition the caret; it won't prevent Firefox's native caret navigation
from doing so.

--joanie

On 07/25/2016 11:51 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Got it. My understanding is that role="application" should override text
> navigability, which is why I'm using it in this instance.
>
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
>
>
> On 07/25/2016 10:04 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Nolan.
> >
> > I just took a quick glance (as I'm in the middle of something else). But
> > as a general rule, Orca respects role="application" on page elements
> > when there is not something that looks like caret-navigable text. And
> > your paragraph child looks like caret-navigable text.
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 07/25/2016 10:48 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > > Working on an HTML-based ebook reader and am experimenting with using
> > > role="application" so someone can't arrow down from a menu into ebook
> > > text and trash their current position. But it doesn't seem like Orca
> > > respects role="application" on non-body elements. Take, for instance,
> > > this attached document. If I put role="application" on the body,
> > > everything works as expected and I can't arrow around. But with it on
> > > the <main/> element, nothing changes.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something either in the spec, or in some Orca/Firefox
> > > setup, that still permits this interaction? Thanks.
> > >
> > >
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