Re: [orca-list] various "problems" on Firefox Nightly

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks for the additional information.

With respect to (at least) avh.asso.fr that is due in part to a valid
change I made in Orca and a bug in Firefox Nightly which is not in
Firefox stable.

The change I made in Orca was to dump cache more often. Then as needed,
Orca searches for the caret location when it's not already cached. In
order for this to work, objects which can have a caret need to
implement the accessible text interface. In Firefox Nightly, the
document itself no longer implements the accessible text interface.
That's a huge bug!

I will try to work around this in Orca, but geez..... There can easily
be other breakage as a consequence of this bug.... :(

On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 17:00 +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list
wrote:
> Hi, :)
>
> Le 18/03/2021 à 15:33, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > So this problem only happens with Firefox Nightly and not stable?
> > Does
>
> Indeed. I did not retest stable recently but it did not happen for
> all 
> the users I know
>
> > it happen on all pages or just some? Does it happen with Orca
> > master
>
> I dont reproduce on orca stable, so yes, seems to affect master.
>
> > only? Are there concrete steps I can use to reproduce the problem?
>
> Not all pages, but frequently. for example, press alt-d and enter 
> avh.asso.fr
>
> When the page opens, the caret seems to go to a weird place where
> arrow 
> keys do not work. The only solution to get it work is pressing tab. 
> Another solution: ctrl-home and arrow keys. the thing is that when
> the 
> cursor is blocked, I cannot press h to browse the headings. Also you
> can 
> sii this entering a new search on startpage.com.
>
> For the combo box, I especially experience this on Dolibarr. A trial
> can 
> be done here:
> https://demo.dolibarr.org/comm/propal/card.php?id=1437&save_lastsearch_values=1
>  
> (demo and demo for login and pass)
>
> feedback when I enter the description after I choose wether it is a 
> service or a product. It worked before. And you have combo boxes, eg.
> to 
> choose a product, and going in a such combo box is somewhat hard.
>
> Best regards,
>
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
> >
> > On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 15:10 +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-
> > list
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 1. Do you experience the fact when a page loads, Orca switches to
> > > focus
> > > mode automatically, regardelss the caret is on an edit area or
> > > not.
> > > In
> > > other words, I need to switch to browse mode at each new page
> > > 2. On combo boxes, initially I ust needed to switch to focus mode
> > > to
> > > use
> > > it, except if the page was reloaded automatically according to
> > > the
> > > choice in the list. Now, I need to press the space key
> > > systematically
> > > to
> > > open a list in a combo box. Is that something wanted by someone
> > > or a
> > > bug?
> > >
> > > thanks for your feedback and tell me if I need to investigate
> > > more
> > > bugs.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
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