GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 536449
Orca not speaking hot-key information for Thunderbird controls
Last modified: 2008-06-19 22:25:13 UTC
Please describe the problem: Orca provides no feedback on hot-keys for controls within many of the dialog boxes in Thunderbird. If you are in a dialog box, as you tab around the controls and press Numpad-Enter when focus is on a control, no hot-key information is indicated. This really slows down work in dialog boxes because the user must tab to the correct control. So far, the exceptions I have found are dialog boxes shared with Firefox--most of the controls within these dialogs have hot keys spoken. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Thunderbird 2. Open a dialog box, for instance Thunderbird Preferences dialog box (Alt-E, up arrow)or the Check Spelling dialog box. 3. tab to controls within the dialog box, then press Numpad-Enter. Actual results: The type, state, and label of the control are spoken, but no hot keys are indicated. Expected results: The type, state, label, and hot-key of the control are spoken. Does this happen every time? Yes, in dialog boxes not shared with Firefox. Other information: In boxes like the Check Spelling dialog where the same controls are used over and over again, this really slows down productivity.
We'll try to look at this for 2.24.0. Thanks for reporting this bug!
David, I'm surprised to hear that we are doing it in Firefox. Are we doing it in all Firefox dialogs or just in things like Open and Save? The reason I ask is that Open and Save I believe come from the distro. The rest come from Mozilla and we're not getting that information (e.g. Firefox Preferences dialog). The way we get the hot key information is by getting the keybindings associated with the accessible action which is associated with the control. This is another instance of this Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440568 When they fix their bug, Orca should automatically just start doing the right thing, both in dialogs and in menus. Therefore, rather than keep two bugs open which are both blocked and both boil down to the same issue, I've changed the title of the menu-related bug to call those things "clickable items" instead of "menu items." Closing this one out as a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 536467 ***