Re: [orca-list] A thunderbird issue



Hey Jacbo.

Ok, this one's a little hard to describe, so hopefully I can articulate
it well enough.

I can picture it. Nice job articulating it.

 This is an issue with Thunderbird that's been plaguing
me for a while, but today it happened so much that I'm finally annoyed
enough to erport it. <smile> Anyway, the problem I'm having is that a
lot of times, when pressing the reply button on a message, Orca will
start reading the message text. This is good. However, control won't
shut it up, but will only shut up the current line of text. It's as if
Orca isn't interpreting the ctrl key to shut up all text, but only the
current text sent to Orca. 

If you were to capture a full debug.out, I bet what you'd find is a
bunch of object:text-changed:insert events. We see this sort of thing
when you copy and paste a bunch of text into a message. See this mozilla
bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510688

Anyhoo, getting back to your question, if we are indeed getting a ton of
object:text-changed:insert events, the only thing we could really do is
try to heuristically identify them and not speak them. The danger is, of
course, creating a flawed algorithm for identification and going silent
when we should be speaking.

What would be really, really helpful instead is if Gecko didn't give us
a bazllion object:text-changed:insert. One would suffice. <smile> Were
that the case, Ctrl would shut up speech as you expect.

Having said all that, I can try to pursue a heuristic solution if you
think that would be best. If so, please file a bug against Orca.

--joanie




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