[orca-list] More on the orca not speaking thunderbird message content area

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I previously reported a problem with orca reading the message content 
area (may be more precisely the issue was orca did not realise it was in 
the content area, therefore did not show the content of the message in 
braille and did not allow up or down cursoring to navigate by line) when 
using at-spi2 from git. It was asked if I could try a try build of 
thunderbird which might fix it, however despite my initial feelings it 
doesn't seem to fix the issue. I initially thought it did fix the issue 
as with the try build of thunderbird it sometimes does not show the 
issue I described, however most of the time it still presents the issue. 
Also if the issue is observed does not seem to be restricted to a 
particular run of orca, eg. just now I read three messages before it 
stop accessing the message content area.

When I observed this first happening was when I upgraded to at-spi2-core 
in git (moving from at-spi2-core 2.0.1, at-spi2-core 2.0.2 came out just 
after I upgraded so may be someone could check whether 2.0.2 is 
affected). While a change of at-spi2-core was what caused this, I don't 
know whether the real issue is simply thunderbird is not being a good 
citizen and a change in at-spi2-core prevented that bad behaviour (there 
are other things in the try build which suggest that might be the case, 
eg. if I press alt+f2 orca speaks the thunderbird window information 
again instead of the run dialog) or if at-spi2 has an actual issue.

This is a really bad issue, it affects a really core task of using the 
computer (IE. reading emails). I hope a fix can be found soon as 
currently Linux is not a system I want to use.

Michael Whapples