If distributions are no longer supporting the means by which applications determine whether accessibility is enabled, then that is not a reason to vent frustration at the application developers.
Supporting the new methods for detecting settings is by definition new and therefore not thoroughly tested. It seems reasonable to put this through the same QA process as any new feature. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857153 Title: Needs to get accessibility settings from GSettings Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “firefox” source package in Oneiric: Fix Committed Status in “firefox” source package in Precise: Fix Committed Bug description: Luke mentioned to me in Dublin that the screen reader doesn't work with Firefox when accessibility is enabled. This is because Firefox is still using GConf to check if accessibility is enabled, when it really needs to be using GSettings. I've just realized this is still the case, so I assume that the screen reader still won't work by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/857153/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
