Re: [orca-list] A thunderbird issue

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

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Hi
Yep that's exactly what's happening. Now, not knowing much of how these
events work as of yet, what would happen if the text insert events were
ignored for that one specific message composition control?

On 05/10/2010 04:52 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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