Re: [orca-list] Pidgin 2.5.3 accessibility improvements

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Woo woo!  Glad to hear this, and thanks for following up.

Will

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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