Re: Mozilla 1.4 and Gnopernicus with GNOME 2.2
I'm following up to my own message to let you know what I was able to find out
based on the replies I got to my query.
mozilla needs an environment variable (GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY) set to "1" to
actually use the ATK bridge. So after doing
$ export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1
$ mozilla
gnopernicus at least speaks the menus and the "Open Web Location" dialog
box again, but it appears to no longer be able to speak links when TABbing
through them. This seems to be related to the fact that Mozilla
Unix Accessibility is seeing a rewrite currently, which also has been
indicated in to me in replies to the message below.
OTOH, some folks thought at first hand that accessibility support in
the Debian mozilla package might now be enabled, or the package could
probably not use gtk2 as widget set. I had a look at the mozilla Debian
package sources, and I I'm fairly certain that this is not the case.
Hope this clarifies things a little bit,
Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org> writes:
> [I am CC'ing this message to mozilla-accessibility@mozilla.org since
> someone there might know the answer to this question.]
>
> Hello.
>
> I used Mozilla 1.3 with enabled accessibility support already
> a little bit under Gnopernicus -- the GNOME screen reader -- on
> a Debian system.
> It was speaking the menus, and it also spoke the links
> when using TAB to navigate between links on a page.
>
> Now Mozilla 1.4 entered the Debian development distribution,
> and I was excited about perhaps seeing some improvements.
>
> What I see now is that mozilla 1.4 does not provide any
> spoken feedback at all. Not in the menus, and not on a
> rendered page. I double-checked, and found that mozilla 1.4
> also has accessibility support enabled by default, just
> like 1.3 had.
>
> Now I am wondering, do I miss something? Do I perhaps need
> to set some environment variable to enabled proper AT-SPI/ATK
> usage of Mozilla? If not, can anyone explain why the new version
> seems to be a lot worse than 1.3 when it comes to accessibility
> support?
>
> Any input on this would be appreciated.
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