Description of problem: Orca does not work for me with web browsers. When opening a web browser it stops speaking out elements and none of the hotkeys work. I have tested on Firefox, Chromium, and Tor Browser. Neither Firefox or Chromium work, regardless of whether they or Orca are started first. Tor browser, however, does sometimes work if Orca is running before it is started. In this case, Orca works with tor browser as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): orca-3.38.2-1.fc33.noarch firefox-88.0-1.fc33.x86_64 chromium-89.0.4389.90-3.fc33.x86_64 How reproducible: All the time for Firefox and Chrome. Most of the time for tor browser. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Orca as usual. Try hotkeys and reading out elements in gnome. 2. Start up a browser. Try hotkeys. Actual results: Orca goes silent as soon as a browser is opened. No orca hotkeys work as long as the browser has focus. Expected results: Orca starts reading out browser and hotkeys remain functional. Additional info: This system has been upgraded through a few versions of Fedora and thus is not a totally clean install. All of the packages are from the official Fedora repositories.
Sorry, I don't think I can help with this, but maybe you could file a ticket upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca to see if the upstream developers have any ideas?
(In reply to Kalev Lember from comment #1) > Sorry, I don't think I can help with this, but maybe you could file a ticket > upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca to see if the upstream > developers have any ideas? I'll try that now, thank you. I initially filed here as someone else reported that it was working okay for them on Ubuntu, so assumed it might be a Fedora specific problem.
No problem! The difference is probably because Ubuntu uses X11 session by default and Fedora uses Wayland. You could maybe try to work this around by choosing the X11 session at the login screen.
Hi Kalev, I actually am using X11, as my system has a nVidia GPU (I should have known better, but was won over by a large discount when purchasing). I have heard that there can be some problems when using Orca on Wayland, is that likely to be an issue if I ever switch over to using an AMD GPU and thus Wayland?
I have heard so as well. But you should be able to just keep on using X11 in that case.
I've just performed a complete re-install to 34, and the screen reader is working as expected now. I suspect there may have been some mis-configuration on my end that caused it to break.
Oh, that's good to hear. Thanks for letting me know! I think we can close the ticket then.