Mike, we need you to define a way for presenting this information in speech and braille.  Thanks!

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.

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.  

I'm tested this one again and the addd-on still doesn't work with thunderbird 3.0 yet.

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.

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.

Reassigning Mike's bugs to the default assignee. (Sorry for the spam!)

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.