---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-07-15 12:21:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5557
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5557
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5557
Original author: Joanmarie Diggs
Original description:

Sighted users figure out the contents of their inbox by looking at the screen.
Users who are blind, however, move focus through the message list and navigate
within it. As a result, the mere act of seeing what new messages you have
results in you having no new messages.

There are a number of ways you can deal with this, none of which seem to be in
issue #5352. I'll list the ones which spring to my mind here for your
consideration:

  1. Add a preference to disable the automatic marking of messages as read. Users who check this checkbox would then have to explicitly mark messages as read.
  2. Add a preference to specify a delay before the selected message is automatically marked as read. This would prevent the problem described in the use case, without significantly altering the current user experience.
  3. Add a preference to hide the message display which is currently to the right of the message list. (If this preference is enabled, users would explicitly open messages which would appear in a new window. I think there are reasons for doing this anyway which have nothing to do with accessibility.) But if this were done and the user enabled it, messages would only be marked as read when viewed.

There could easily be others. Speaking of which, how you address this issue is
(I think) less important than addressing this issue.



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-07-16 05:05:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago

  * **Priority** changed from _Normal_ to _High_



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:26 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5557 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5557

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