Re: [orca-list] Unfocused Firefox Content and Progress/Landmark Messages

[Jared Wright <wright jaredm gmail com>]

Correction, it's apparently unfocused windows only. The messages are 
suppressed if they are unfocused tabs. Which makes it somewhat less 
impactful, although still maybe worth considering for unfocused windows 
as well.

On 09/15/2010 12:30 PM, Jared Wright wrote:
> I wanted to suggest reconsidering whether  all progress messages and 
> landmark  updates aught be spoken everywhere in Firefox at all times. 
> My suggestion is  that only those in the currently focused window/tab 
> should be automatically spoken, regardless of politeness settings in 
> the case of landmark updates. As it is if a user  opens a news story 
> in a new window/tab from a  Facebook link in an original  window/tab 
> while  a large download  runs in the downloads window, the numerous 
> live region updates from Facebook and progress updates  from the 
> download window  bleed into the news  story. Get a landmark-heavy site 
> or multiple sources   of progress  updates going and this can become 
> speech soup very quickly!
>
> Just a passing thought. Open to existing solutions, of course, I still 
> wouldn't pretend to know Orca's finer customizations as well as I 
> eventually hope to and might be missing something.