firefox accessibility

[Jonathan Nadeau]

Hello List,

I'm a blind linux user running Ubuntu and the gnome desktop. Both
firefox and thunderbird run great when I'm using the Gnome desktop. Here
is my problem...

I've managed to get the XFCE desktop accessible with the Orca screen
reader in Ubuntu. The entire desktop and almost all of the programs in
XFCE are accessible. The problem I'm having is when I open either
Firefox or Thunderbird Orca stops working. But when I close these
programs then Orca starts to work again just fine. I can log out of
using the XFCE desktop and log into the Gnome desktop and Firefox and
Thunderbird are accessible to Orca. But when I log out of Gnome and back
into XFCE both Firefox and Thunderbird become inaccessible again. I'm
not sure what I'm missing in the XFCE desktop that the Gnome desktop has
that is making Firefox and Thunderbird accessible. Something is not
getting passed to the accesibility stack in XFCE that is in Gnome i'm
assuming. But I don't really know. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I'm working on building accessible Linux distro using
Ubuntu for blind and low vision people and this problem is the last
hurdle preventing me from finishing this project. Thanks for your time
and help.

[Alexander Surkov]

CC'ing Trevor hoping he has an answer.
Alex.

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