have you tried chromium or opera as the web browser? That might fix it. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Jonathan Nadeau <<a href="mailto:j.nadeau@charter.net" target="_blank">j.nadeau@charter.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello list, i'm a blind user and I use the Orca screen reader. I've been working on getting Orca to work with xfce. So far everything has been going really well. So far I've been able to make the xfce desktop accessible along with the xfce menu and other programs such as pidgin. Here is a problem that I'm having. When I open firefox and thunderbird Orca can't read anything in these programs. Using the gnome desktop both of these programs are very accessible. So i'm not sure what I could be missing. I noticed that there is a package firefox-gnome-support and this was already installed. I also installed gedit and this application was accessible without having to do anything to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This would be a big boost for the blind community to have a light and fast desktop to use as an alternative to Gnome. Thanks for your time and help. -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>