Re: [orca-list] Orca stops speaking notifications: things I've discovered

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Nolan.

When Orca gets an event indicating that an object with the role of 
notification is showing, it attempts to present the notification 
immediately. So if it's not presenting a notification, my guesses are:

1. No event.
2. Wrong role.
3. Speech possibly being interrupted for some reason.

I get that capturing a debug.out in this case is challenging, but having 
one in which a notification comes in but is not presented to you would 
be extremely helpful in figuring out the problem.

--joanie

On 10/4/19 8:31 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Reported this here a while back, but at the time it couldn't be easily 
> replicated and I shelved it. Recently it began annoying me more, though, 
> and I've tried digging into it. Essentially, after some amount of time, 
> Orca stops speaking most notifications. I noticed that some still 
> spoke--my wireless keyboard's batteries are low, and those always speak. 
> But incoming mail notifications, drives inserted/removed, etc. don't 
> speak until I reboot. Capturing a debug.out is difficult because I'd 
> essentially need to leave logging running until I get a new message. But 
> I did discover some things that might help track this down.
>
>
> First, I discovered that clearing past notifications restores speaking 
> of notifications. That made me wonder if the behavior had something to 
> do with the notification stack.
>
>
> I then pounced on the notification area immediately after a new email 
> arrived and the notification didn't speak. On top, I noticed an alert 
> about my low keyboard battery from 13 minutes ago. Right below, I found 
> the incoming email from just now.
>
>
> So if Orca gets an event for a new notification, is it just looking at 
> the top of the stack and seeing an old/already processed notification, 
> and not finding the newer one immediately below? That might explain away 
> all of this, but I haven't had my coffee yet so take that for what it's 
> worth.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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