Ubuntu Edgy: Orca-Magnifier does not follow scrolling in Firefox

Henrik Nilsen Omma henrik at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 4 09:27:55 UTC 2006


Robert Cole wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I apologize if this is a previously stated issue.
>
> I am not sure if this is a bug in Orca-Magnifier or Firefox 2.0Beta 2 
> Accessibility (which I believe is the default browser in Edgy).  
> Basically, when scrolling on a Web page, the magnifier component of 
> Orca does not show the new contents of the browser window until the 
> mouse pointer is moved ( i.e. it does not actively show scrolling).  I 
> am unsure of which magnifier (gnome-mag or some other magnifier) is 
> used with Orca, but gnome-mag/Gnopernicus did not have this problem 
> when I tested it.  Other than that, the magnifier itself works very 
> well (after changing its default position to a top-horizontal split)

I was going to say that this is probably a Firefox issue, but I'm 
intigued you say that it worked with gnopernicus. They both use 
gnome-mag. Was this with the same version of Firefox.

I'm copying the orca list in case this is a regression in magnifier 
support (may be a regression in Firefox?)

Henrik




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