Re: [orca-list] Pidgin 2.5.3 accessibility improvements

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Dear Nolan,

What you are seeing in 2.5.3 is indeed a fix for a bug that the pidgin 
people mistakenly introduced. I am glad that it now works as before the 
bug.


-Jon
On Fri 09/01/2009 at 13:21:13, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Today on a whim I downloaded and installed Pidgin 2.5.3. I'd also seen  
> in the changelog that they'd made the conversation history accessible  
> via f6/shift-f6, so since I've been enormously frustrated at the  
> difficulty of flat reviewing chat history, which is essential in  
> technical chats where I might need to review a config or source code  
> snippet, I wondered what the accessibility implications might be.
>
> In a word, wow. The chat history is fully accessible and scrollable as  
> if it were a document. Continuous read seems to work, and it appears  
> that position is saved in chats, so if I enter the chat history window,  
> switch to a new chat tab then return to the first tab, both the fact  
> that I was in the chat history window and my place in that window are  
> restored. The user list is also accessible and can be arrowed through,  
> and presumably I can open private chats. Most importantly, if I am  
> reviewing conversation history and a new message arrives, my place in  
> that history isn't lost. Before, it was difficult to have several chat  
> tabs open, because an inbound message on any tab caused flat review  
> position to be lost. Now my twitter notifications and IRC chats happen  
> side-by-side, and I can review them all at my leisure.
>
> Anyhow, just wanted to point that out. There's a Ubuntu PPA for the  
> interested, on the first page of google search results. I've just been  
> playing with this for half an hour, so there may still be lurking  
> gotchas and I don't have the resources to support those, but I thought  
> I'd let folks know about this improvement.
>
> Note to developers: I'll keep playing with this for a few days to ensure  
> that it works as expected, but if it does then I'll close the bug that I  
> opened about the cursor snapping back to the text input area for all new  
> messages. This new behavior is much more ideal and, as of now, seems to  
> address all of my issues.
>
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