Re: [orca-list] Orca seems to loose focus on message body in thunderbird when using new windows

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Michael.

Confirmed as described.

There is a workaround that works partially for me.

With thunderbird in focus press orca_key+ctrl+space to activate the
preferences for thunderbird.
Localize the thunderbird page and check the option "automatically start
speaking a page when it is first loaded".

After this, when you open a message, you'll get focus to the message.
The problem is that if you switch to another application and switch back
to the message, the focus disappear.
Thanks.
On 10/26/2010 10:16 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:
>  Hello,
>  I think Steve mentioned he has noticed this but he said he only
>  observes this sometimes where as it seems to be the norm for me.
>
>  I have thunderbird set to show messages in a new window, so when I
>  press enter on a message in the message list, I here orca announce the
>  new window (the title of the window), then I here orca read the first
>  line of the message and then I hear orca read the title of the window
>  again (like the window has just been focused again). Generally if I
>  click the first routing key on my Braille display I can get focus back
>  to the message content area.
>
>  As I remember when I had thunderbird set to show messages in a new tab
>  I did not have this issue.
>
>  As I am getting it constantly I will create a bug report and try and
>  get some debug information in the hope I can find out the issue.
>
>  Michael Whapples
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