Hello,
In order to demonstrate we can already feel enough awesomeness in this update I am posting this message using the gmail interface.
Overal experience is now much more consistent. Usually even tbing to various aria buttons, toggle buttons and simiral controls already switches to focus mode making subsequent popup menus, dialogs and other stuff like this more natural to use.
I will test more throughly tomorow and during subsequent days. For example I need to try to understand what is the issue with list of conversations in gmail not switching to focus mode. All other places where I have tested it so far appear to work consistently enough depending on the web app in question. Of course we have to understand web apps are also not perfect on this.
Another issue which I need to understand so I will be able to decide whether this is an orca issue a firefox issue or an web site authoring issue is within the google search page. For example go to the
google.com and notice the focus mode is automagically turned on because the page changes the focus to the edit field it self. Now type something into the browse mode and navigate before the text you just have typed by repeatedly pressing the left arrow key. All is well and you can manage that. Now arrow over the text you have just typed in the opposite direction by repeatedly pressing the right arrow key. Still all is fine you are able to successfully able to read the text. However keep pressing right arrow key when you are after the text you have just typed and examine what you are reading. You are arrowing over all the suggestions google came up with when you have typed the string in. Instead I expect to only read the entry's value when in browse mode. Also I should try to test this with previous versions in order to discover whether this is a new behaviour or not.
As I said I am verry happy about this movement and I'll try to give more feetback.
