Dave,

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Dave Mielke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm the developer for the user interface for a new Android-based braille
> tablet. Due to current hardware limitations, we're currently limited to
> using
> version 4.1.2 of Android.
>
> I've tried using these two versions of firefox so far:
>
>    Firefox_19.0.apk
>    Firefox Browser fennec-21.0a1.multi.android-arm.apk
>
>
Wow, both of those are very old! The latest version is 44. Please try that
and see if you have the same problem.


> We're using the very same accessibility framework that Google's TalkBack
> does,
> but a critical element is that this device doesn't have a touch screen.
>

I guess that makes sense...


>
> Our problem is that we're only able to see firefox's action controls at
> the top
> of the screen. In other words, we're unable to see the content of the
> current
> web page at all. Do you have any idea why this might be and what we might
> be
> able to do? Is there something unique about how firefox is rendering the
> web
> page content that differs from how its controls are being rendered?
>

It is pretty different, yes. The content area is a SurfaceView which Gecko
draws into using OpenGL. If you can attach a logcat captured during Fennec
startup that might be helpful.

James
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