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Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with Orca

If you haven’t noticed yet, Firefox 3.5.4 hit the web last night. For accessibility, this brings one major fix all of our Linux and Solaris users will appreciate: Certain comboboxes such as the “Security Question” one on the GMail signup page, were broken in the initial releases of 3.5. When you arrowed, Orca would not speak the newly selected item. This was a regression from 3.0 where this worked.

We initially fixed this for Firefox 3.6 alpha and now also backported the fix to the 3.5 branch.

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7 Responses to “Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with Orca”

  1. domasofan (Simon Eigeldinger) says:
    October 28, 2009 at 7:32 am

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    rt @MarcoZehe: New blog post: #Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with #Orca : [link to post]

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  2. planetmozilla (Planet Mozilla) says:
    October 28, 2009 at 8:00 am

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    Marco Zehe: Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with Orca: If you haven’t noticed yet, Firefox 3.5… [link to post]

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  3. javido (Javier Dorado) says:
    October 28, 2009 at 8:33 am

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    RT @MarcoZehe New blog post: #Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with #Orca : [link to post] fantastic thx

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  4. pvagner (Peter Vágner) says:
    October 28, 2009 at 10:31 am

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    RT @MarcoZehe New blog post: #Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with #Orca : [link to post]

    – Posted using Chat Catcher

  5. elleica says:
    October 28, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    i use firefox. it’s way better than other browsers. and i’m glad that there’s a new update available.

  6. Firefox 3.5.4 fixes certain comboboxes on Linux with Orca « AccessTech News says:
    October 28, 2009 at 7:18 pm

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