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[Trevor Saunders <857153@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to Karl Tomlinson (:karlt) from comment #50)
> (In reply to Trevor Saunders (:tbsaunde) from comment #49)
> > well, the firstthing that comes to mind is arranging for build machines and
> > test machines to have GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY set, do we have an idea how hard
> > this is?
> 
> It would be good to ensure there is a session bus, because we'd like to test
> the dbus code.  Perhaps DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is not set because of the

We don't have any tests right now that make sure that  this code works
properly afaik, or for that matter any of our  platform code works.

> way our testing connects to the existing gnome session.  Or perhaps the
> CentOS 5.0 machines are just too old to have a session bus running.  On

Is there even a gnome session to speak of?

> If you only need accessibility enabled for accessibility tests then it
> probably makes sense to set GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY in the Makefile command that
> runs the accessiblity tests.
I believe the current state to be that accessibility is only on for a11y tests where it is turned on through xpcom instead of using platform mechanisms

> > I'd expect though that in the vast majority of cases  that there is a
> > session and this is not relavent. Karl would you  object if I merge that
> > change set?
> 
> No I would not object.  Please add a comment to explain why the
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is there though.

sure

> 
> The situation with dbus when it can't connect to a session bus is
> unfortunate, and perhaps something worth avoiding anyway, if we can.

yeah, I'd expect we'd spend a bit of time blocking though that's a
guess.

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Title:
  Needs to get accessibility settings from GSettings

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

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

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