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

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi all.
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:46 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> The difference when alt+f6 is pressed and when it isn't pressed is that 
> orca doesn't seem to recognise that the dialog has got focus. By this I 
> mean until alt+f6 (or alt+tabbing seems to work as well) orca doesn't 
> speak or braille anything even though the dialog has focus and actions 
> may be performed on it. 

That to me sounds like this Mozilla bug which I filed a couple of months
ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466332

In particular note what I said when I "pinged" the bug last week:

> Ping. :-)
>
> The impact of this bug for the user is that when you get into and then move
> around within the Preferences dialog, you have no speech and no braille because
> we get no events letting us know that this window has been activated. While one
> can Alt+Tab out of and back into the dialog as a workaround, it's hard to know
> that this needs doing if you can't see what's on the screen. :-)
>
> It would, therefore, be awesome if this could be addressed sooner rather than
> later. Thanks much in advance!!!

Does this sound like the same issue you are reporting?

Thanks!
--Joanie