Re: [orca-list] Pidgin 2.5.3 accessibility improvements



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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