Hi Aurelian, For your first question, I think the bug has been fixed in trunk.
Please see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317213 Regards, Evan Aurelian Radu wrote: > Hello, dear list! > > This is my first message here and I'm hoping that you can help me (or > at least give me some hope for the future). > > I'm visually-impaired and I cannot use a computer without a magnifier. > That is one of the things that are keeping me on Windows. I use the > magnifier that comes with Windows, not ZoomText or other commercial > software. The basic Windows magnifier has all the features I need: I > can dock it to the bottom edge of the screen (I'm not comfortable with > full-screen magnification), I set the magnification factor to 9x, it > runs very well, it follows mouse movement very smoothly, it follows > text-editing (except in OpenOffice and in some parts of Firefox, and > some other apps), and it is low on RAM and CPU resources. > > I've tried several Linux distros (from Mandrake 10.1 with GNOME 2.10 > and KDE 3.2, to Ubuntu Dapper with GNOME 2.14 and KDE 3.5.2), but > magnification seems to have improved very little. > > Kmag runs fairly smoothly and the newest version can be docked to one > of the screen edges, but it doesn't follow text-editing. That means I > have to move the mouse in order to bring the focus to where I'm writing. > > Gnopernicus + gnome-mag follows text-editing fairly well in apps like > gedit and gnome-terminal (even in gnomeradio!), but not in OpenOffice > and Firefox. OOo 2.0.2 seems to have made a step forward: OOo Writer > does get some focus, but not as it should. When you write somethin, > focus goes to the middle of the line, not to where the cursor is. > > In Firefox, whenever I write something, focus jumps to the upper-left > corner of the screen. This bug has been around ever since I tried > Linux 10 months ago, but it hasn't been fixed in Firefox or in any of > the Linux distros. > > Another problem is that gnopernicus/gnome-mag displays magnified areas > poorly. The movement is choppy and the magnified image is full of > black "patches" and portions of previously closed windows. This > problem does not exist in kmag. > > These are some of the issues I have encountered with > gnopernicus/gnome-mag Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you for taking the time to read this. > > Aurelian Radu > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
