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Bug 1221521

Summary:	Firefox doesn't work with Orca screen reader
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jiri Eischmann <jeischma>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	andy, bgollahe, jeischma
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Description Jiri Eischmann 2015-05-14 09:31:03 UTC

Description of problem:
Orca accessibility screen reader doesn't read anything in Firefox (and Thunderbird as well), thus it makes it impossible for visually impaired to use it.  

I also tested it on Fedora 22 where the new GTK3-based Firefox doesn't work with Orca reader either.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2015-05-18 18:07:30 UTC

Is that a dupe of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1067395 ? i.e. FF has to be restarted when accessibility is enabled.

Comment 3 Jiri Eischmann 2015-05-19 09:23:23 UTC

Seems so, when I restart Firefox, it indeed starts working with the reader.

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2015-05-21 10:06:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1067395 ***

Comment 5 Andy 2021-09-03 09:20:11 UTC

As the bug that this one is supposed to duplicate has been supposedly fixed since 3.22 and FF 52, but the symptom of Orca not having access to Firefox and Thunderbird w/o restart remains in FF 92 and Orca 40.0, I guess this bug should be reopened?

Firefox has this tracked as well https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601840

Also, see this discussion within the Orca team: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/212