Re: Bug#682914: Iceweasel Fails to detect that accessibility is enabled on the Gnome 3 desktop
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:45:42AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi release team,
>
> Would you allow this patch to go in, for the reasons outlined below?
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e95cb5b98154
Same patch would need to be applied to icedove and iceape, obviously.
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27:51AM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 10.0.6esr-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Debian now uses the Gnome 3 accessibility infrastructure (AT-SPI 2, Orca 3.4,
> > etc.). Iceweasel 10.x is unable to detect that accessibility is enabled under
> > Gnome 3 and it is therefore inaccessible to Orca users unless work-arounds are
> > in place (i.e., GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 is set in the environment by the user).
> >
> > The patch to fix this appears to have been integrated as of Firefox 11:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693343
> > and I can confirm that it is working (I use Iceweasel 14 from experimental).
> >
> > Would it be possible to backport the patch to the version of Gecko that will
> > be included in Wheezy?
> >
> > This is becoming a FAQ on the Debian accessibility and Orca mailing lists -
> > users keep encountering this bug after installing testing.
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