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Bug 533487 - Provide a way to present quoted text in Thunderbird
Provide a way to present quoted text in Thunderbird
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: FUTURE
Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
post-3.0
Depends on:
Blocks: 404409
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-16 19:01 UTC by Willie Walker
Modified: 2018-02-08 12:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Willie Walker 2008-05-16 19:01:24 UTC
When reading and responding to e-mail in Thunderbird, one should be able to determine that they are viewing text quoted from previous messages.
Comment 1 Willie Walker 2008-06-02 21:22:59 UTC
Mike, we need you to define a way for presenting this information in speech and braille.  Thanks!
Comment 2 David Price 2008-06-02 23:07:36 UTC
Just a suggestion for speech feedback... Add an edit box to the Thunderbird application specific preferences so that the user can define the nature of the feedback.  For instance, the user could define the feedback to be ">", "|", "quote", etc.
Comment 3 Mike Pedersen 2008-07-22 16:11:49 UTC
I think the best way to solve this bug is through the use uf the thunderbird extention.  I'm going to leave my name on this bug to remind me to test it when it works with thunderbird 3.  
Comment 4 Mike Pedersen 2008-09-07 21:14:33 UTC
I'm tested this one again and the addd-on still doesn't work with thunderbird 3.0 yet.
Comment 5 Willie Walker 2009-08-14 15:43:36 UTC
We are late in the 2.28 release cycle and I want to focus on "high impact"/"low risk" items that also fall within the release team's restrictions in place.  Regretfully, this bug doesn't fit well within those constraints and we'll review it for the 2.29 release cycle.
Comment 6 Mike Pedersen 2009-11-02 19:13:58 UTC
considering that nothing seems to be going on with the pluggin we may either want to consider other solutions or close this one as "won't fix".  Note I'm not in favor of Orca adding extra mark-up to the message.
Comment 7 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-04-03 20:25:46 UTC
Reassigning Mike's bugs to the default assignee. (Sorry for the spam!)
Comment 8 Steve Holmes 2010-08-21 08:40:41 UTC
I was figuring maybe if Orca could be "trained" to identify color attribute changes while reading through the message body, perhaps quoted text could be identified.  I tried to use Orca's font/attributes hotkey (Orca+f by default) but all I got was the font and size.  I get color pronouncements on all other application windows but not in Thunderbird.  I get them while in Firefox too but not on the mail client.  I thought Thunderbird used color highlighting to identify quoted text; am I right?

If color tracking is used by Thunderbird then we need to add the ability to Orca to automatically announce changes in color and font attributes while arrowing through the message body and other text widgets in other applications.  In the particular case of Thunderbird, we could interpret the color changes to be quoted text and act accordingly in Thunderbird exclusively.