231035 - Mozilla no longer works with the gnome onscreen keyboard (GOK) application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239867

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Michael Lew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 00FFFFFF4C00; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031106
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000675724C00; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216

When running mozilla with GOK 0.7.1-1, the Toolbars and UI Grab buttons
correctly display.  However, with gok 0.8.4-1 and newer, mozilla is apparently
not registering the toolbar or the other items in the ui correctly because the
Toolbars and UI Grab selections are not available.  Other applications like the
gnome terminal work the same with both of the gok versions mentioned above. 
That is the UI Grab selection does come up as an item that is selectable in both
gok versions( 0.8.4-1 and 0.7.1-1 ) for the gnome terminal.

This change/problem was seen on both Linux and AIX.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Does "xvkbd" (http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/xvkbd/) work for Mozilla on AIX ?

Comment 2

[Philip K. Warren]

Roland: This bug deals solely with the Gnome onscreen keyboard program, since
Mozilla uses the Gnome accessibility libraries (and supporting programs) to
implement accessibility support on Unix. We have no intentions of building or
testing Mozilla with other keyboard programs at this time.

Comment 3

[Kyle Yuan]

I guess this is caused by bug 235719. We are seeing the same problem on Linux.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Philip, I'm making you the owner of GOK bugs by default. Reassign to me when
necessary.

Is this bugs still a problem? Kyle said it was caused by bug 235719, which is
now fixed.

Comment 5

[Philip K. Warren]

Part of this problem was fixed by Bug 235719, however the Toolbars and UI Grab
buttons still do not work, because we are not setting state ATK_STATE_SHOWING
for several of the accessible elements in Mozilla. GOK only recurses down
elements with state ATK_STATE_SHOWING. The patch in Bug 239867 appears to fix
this problem. Marking this bug as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239867 ***