[Rt-devel] RT Firefox and Orca screen reader

[Jesse Vincent]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:47 AM, bart at bunting.net.au wrote:

> Jesse, Thomas,
>
> Thanks so much for your extremely quick response.
>
> Patching 3.6 works very well.  I haven't had a chance to try a 3.8  
> installation as yet.
>
> I very much appreciate you guys taking accessibility issues seriously.

Accessibility matters. Thanks for bringing it up with us. The fix  
should be in RT 3.8.1. We have some other small issues to work out for  
the 3.8.1 release, but I'd hope to see it within a month.

-j


> Regards
>
> Bart
>
>
> Thomas Sibley writes:
>> Hey Bart,
>>
>> I committed a fix for the focus issue this morning to 3.8 trunk,  
>> which
>> means it should make it into the 3.8.1 release.  I tested it with  
>> Orca
>> in Firefox and it seems to work.
>>
>> In the meantime, if you remove the onfocus attribute as Jesse  
>> suggested,
>> that should fix the problem in your current RT.  It will, however,  
>> have
>> the side effect of a visually ugly focus box for any of your  
>> sighted users.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
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