Re: [orca-list] Focus mode and notifications

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kyle.
Could you please file a bug against Orca and attach a full debug.out?
I'm trying to focus on some other tasks these days, but can look into
this issue soon I hope. Thanks!
--joanie

On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 10:07 -0400, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> I can confirm this behavior. Initially I thought this bug was related
> to 
> Thunderbird, since I first noticed it when I received an email 
> notification. But you're absolutely right that it seems to happen
> with 
> all notifications. I don't lose focus mode right away when I receive
> a 
> notification either. It seems to happen when the notification pop-up 
> closes. I should add that this loss of focus mode is completely
> silent, 
> meaning that Orca never says "browse mode," it just pops silently out
> of 
> focus mode,. Sometimes I catch it and I can just toggle focus mode
> back 
> on. But many times I'm caught off guard typing in a text field and 
> navigation functions start activating in place of the letters I'm
> trying 
> to type. I should also note that I only notice this behavior when I
> use 
> Firefox. Chromium-based browsers including Google Chrome and Brave
> seem 
> to be able to stay in focus mode through notifications.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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