Re: [orca-list] Orca and reading position in thunderbird message list

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:05:01PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have noticed something interesting about the way orca reports the
> position of the selection in the thunderbird message list. It
> reports the selection as being something out of 30 or 31, although I
> have 517 messages in the folder.
>
> My questions go:
> * Is orca reporting only those shown on the screen (I suspect this
> may be yes).

Yes, I think so.

> * If yes to the previous question, is this really the desired way of
> reporting the position? I personally would have thought not, I would
> have thought all the messages should count towards the total. What
> do others think?

I think the problem lies with the question of whether threading is
being used or not.  I'll have to play with this some more to be sure
but I'm quite certain Orca sees the list as what is currently
displayed and messages under collapsed threads are not shown thus not
counted either.  I'll bet if threading is not used or if all threads
are fully expanded that the count will reflect the real total.

As for whether Orca should do this or not be driven by how listviews
are populated; Orca might not have a real choice in this situation.