Re: [orca-list] Orca not accessing the message content area in thunderbird after viewing one message

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I just press enter on the message in the message list.

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/37 20:59, Mike Gorse wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> What hotkey are you pressing to open a message?
>
> I've installed 3.3a3, and I'm seeing what seems like a bug where, if I 
> press ctrl-o to open a message, Orca doesn't read anything if I try to 
> cursor around.  If I press tab and shift+tab, I am then able to use 
> the cursor keys to read the message.  This happens with both AT-SPI 1 
> and AT-SPI 2 and seems unrelated to whether or not another message was 
> opened previously, so it doesn't sound like the same bug that you are 
> reporting. Also, it doesn't happen for me with 3.1.8, although there 
> is a delay of several seconds when I press ctrl+w with AT-SPI2 (but 
> not with AT-SPI 1).
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
> On Mon, 23 May 2011, Michael Whapples wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I am using thunderbird 3.3a3 and orca from git (pulled lunchtime 
> > today) and at-spi2-core from git (again lunchtime today). I find that 
> > when I view one message, any further viewing of a message (not 
> > necessarily the same message) orca just will not access the content 
> > of the message body. This seems to also extend to writing a message 
> > as well. The only way to work around this is to restart orca, which 
> > gets a bit much as it needs to be done after viewing every message.
> >
> > I suspect it might be an at-spi2-core issue, as I think I observed it 
> > just before I updated orca but I cannot quite be sure on that.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this? Anyone else got more information on 
> > what the issue is and if there is a better fix than having to restart 
> > orca?
> >
> > Michael Whapples
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