275878 - Jaws sofware from Freedom Scientific doesn't speaks menus and links

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Dilsia A. Martinez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217




   When using Jaws from Freedom Scientific, Jaws doesn't speaks the links, menus
and buttons in browser and other components of Mozilla

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the browser Mozilla

2.Jaws tell me its open

3.Jaws speaks almost everything 

Actual Results:  


Jaws did not speak menus and links

Expected Results:  



Jaws should speak the links, menus and buttons

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

What version of JAWS?

By the way, please contact Freedom Scientific and ask them to support the
Mozilla products you're interested. They keep track of how many users ask for
support of a given product, and work is required on their end for Mozilla support.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Also, do you mind trying with a more recent version, like Mozilla 1.8a5?

Comment 3

[Dilsia A. Martinez]

  Thank you guys, I'll do that what you say I'll contact Freedom. I recently
went to the Official downloads page and  didn't find the version 1.8a5, the
version featured is 1.7.5. Where do I find 1.8a5?.

Thanks
Dilsia

Comment 4

[Dilsia A. Martinez]

    One additional suggestion, it would help if you put the newest build first
on the downloads page; build 1.7 is first in the long row of downloads. I've
installed build 1.8a5

Thanks
Dilsia

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

We don't put that on the downloads page because it's an alpha, testing version.
We don't want the general public to be downloading it unless the'yre interested
in helping us fix problems. Since you reported a bug in Bugzilla, I assumed you
fall into that category of helpers.

Here's the latest alpha release, 1.8a5:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.8a5/

By the way, we are working much better right now with the Window-Eyes 5 beta.
They've put a little work into it. You could try that for now, until we have
JAWS support.

Comment 6

[Dilsia A. Martinez]

  Hi guys:


     I'm a newbie helper, please forgive me if I make a blooper, the comment I
did about the downloads page came because I was told : Do you care to download
1.8a5? 

      Now I understand I was in the right path downloading 1.7.5 since that was
the Official release of Mozilla suite.Now a question if I download an Official
release and find a bug the correct step is to report it isn't it? 

  Thank you for your thorough work with Windows Eyes beta and the Windows Eyes
staff.

Happy Holidays

Dilsia

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

If you find a bug in Mozilla 1.7.5 or even Firefox 1.0 it might no longer be
relevant. The bug may have already been fixed by now, because the current alpha
builds have evolved beyond those 'stable' versions that are made available for
mass-consumption. Therefore, to be really helpful you need to also install a
recent alpha build, also known as the trunk build or developer's build. It is
safe to install these bleeding edge builds in a separate directory from your
stable 1.7.5. The testing and bug fixing we do occur on the most recent builds,
which are what most future products will be made from. It is your choice if you
wish to go that far to help.

Comment 8

[Dilsia A. Martinez]

Ahhhhh I see, I see yes I would like to go that far. I'm in; now I have 1.8a5 to
test. I'll use it regularly to see how it behaves. Thanks a lot guys.

    Let's see what the Freedom guys say to my request.

Best wishes
Dilsia
newbie in Mozilla

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

Thanks Dilsia, and welcome to the project. It's a lot of work, but it's fun.
- Aaron

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
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If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
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Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Comment 11

[Aaron Leventhal]

JAWS 7 speaks menus in Firefox 1.5.

Comment 12

[Jason Bassford]

If a new version of "Jaws" fixed this, then no code was actually checked into
Mozilla, so it can't, itself, have been broken or fixed.  (And this should
actually have been a Tech Evangelism bug.  However.)

-> WORKSFORME

Comment 13

[Aaron Leventhal]

(In reply to comment #12)
> If a new version of "Jaws" fixed this, then no code was actually checked into
> Mozilla, so it can't, itself, have been broken or fixed.  (And this should
> actually have been a Tech Evangelism bug.  However.)
> 
> -> WORKSFORME

I just spent since late 2004 putting the MSAA support into Mozilla so JAWS could
work in it. So, this should be marked FIXED. Whatever, doesn't really matter.

Comment 14

[Jason Bassford]

> I just spent since late 2004 putting the MSAA support into Mozilla

Fair enough, my mistake.  (Although no mention of that was made in the comments
of this bug or its resolution. :)

If you could reference the bug responsible for checking in that code that would
be great.