Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird/Firefox: Mnemonics not spoken for menu items

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

This bug report has been filed here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536467

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>
To: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:35 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Thunderbird/Firefox: Mnemonics not spoken for menu 
items


> Hi,
>
> When I pull down a menu in either Thunderbird or Firefox, the names of
> the items in the menu are spoken, hot keys are spoken if available, but
> there is no way to determine the mnemonic for a menu entry.  For
> instance, the "Save" item in the File menu often has the mnemonic `s',
> so that a user can press Alt-f s to activate the "Save" item in the menu
> without having to arrow down through the menu to reach that item.
>
> These mnemonics are not spoken as focus reaches the menu item, nor are
> they available by pressing Keypad-Enter.
>
> Is anyone seeing these menu mnemonics?
>
> Thanks,
>
> dave
>
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