Re: [orca-list] Possible bug with orca and thunderbird 3.0b1

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
Doesn't quite sound like what I was describing, there is no dialog box 
which isn't getting focus, the dialog is certainly in focus as doing 
actions with the keyboard lead to the results I would expect if the 
dialog is in focus (eg. pressing space to activate the send but in the 
send confirmation dialog, or pressing shift+tab and then space in the 
same dialog). It seems either the focus isn't being reported to orca or 
orca is not responding to the report of the focus. All that pressing 
alt+f6 in my case does is make orca actually report the focus, as I said 
if you know the dialog and could perform the action without orca's 
feedback then you don't need to press alt+f6.

Also when you say the problem has been known for some months, what 
version does that relate to, thunderbird 3.0a3 did not show the problem. 
I haven't noticed it in firefox, may be its because I am using stable 
releases there (firefox 3.0.5), again what version of firefox is it 
meant to have started showing itself?

Michael Whapples

On 23/12/42 20:59, David E. Price wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hi,
>
> This problem has been known for several months.  It occurs in both 
> Thunderbird and Firefox. I believe it was Hermann who filed a bug with 
> Mozilla about this problem.
>
> Also, pressing Alt-F6generally will get focus into the unfocused 
> dialog box.
>
> dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
> To: "orca" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Possible bug with orca and thunderbird 3.0b1
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I have filed a bug report for this, it can be found in the gnome 
> > bugzilla system as bug 567855.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> >
> > On 15/01/09 12:32, Jose Vilmar Estacio de Souza wrote:
> > > Hi Michael and all.
> > > This is confirmed as described.
> > > I've noticed that the dialog is read switching to another 
> > > application pressing alt+tab and then pressing alt+tab again to 
> > > return to the dialog,
> > >
> > > On 15-01-2009 10:26, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I have noticed that since I have updated to thunderbird 3.0b1 from 
> > > > thunderbird 3.0a3 orca doesn't seem to speak dialogs as they 
> > > > appear. Let me explain with an example. When I am writing a message 
> > > > and then press control+enter to send thunderbird comes up with a 
> > > > confirmation dialog asking whether I want to send the message. When 
> > > > using thunderbird 3.0a3 orca would speak the dialog when it appears 
> > > > (like it does for any other windo which appears). When using 
> > > > thunderbird 3.0b1 orca says nothing automatically, although I am 
> > > > quite sure that the dialog has appeared as I have pressed space (as 
> > > > send is the default button to get focus in the dialog) and yes the 
> > > > message does get sent. I believe the same behaviour is happening 
> > > > for other dialogs such as preferences.
> > > >
> > > > I am using orca from SVN trunk. When I originally updated 
> > > > thunderbird I was using a slightly outdated one (orca -v said orca 
> > > > 2.25.4pre) but thinking that may be a later version of orca may 
> > > > have attended to this problem I updated to the latest trunk last 
> > > > night, but the problem still exists.
> > > >
> > > > Is this problem known? Do others observe this as well?
> > > >
> > > > Michael Whapples
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