[nvda] Re: Thunderbird, problem with the compose new message. window

Aaron (Mozilla Accessibility) estimates that we should see IAccessible2 in some usable state (at least in Firefox3, trunk) by June I think he said.
Aaron isn't implementing IAccessible2 himself, but another guy (who couldn't be hear at CSUN sadly) apparently is doing it.
So hopefully if its June that we can start playing with IAccessible2, then hopefully NVDA should have something usable in July sometime, perhaps before.
Hopefully for now I can practice on Lotis Notes 8 (which has IAccessible2 support). 

Mick
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Teh" <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [nvda] Re: Thunderbird, problem with the compose new message. window 



Hi Arnaud,
Unfortunately, we don't have any way of accessing text from Mozilla editable controls. MSAA does not really provide decent support for document objects, so we would have to interface directly with the application and there is no interface we are aware of to achieve this. Maybe we could find a way to make NVDA recognise that the field is editable and thus disable the virtual buffer code, but you still won't be able to read the text. Hopefully, a lot of this will be solved by IAccessible 2 when it arrives. 

Jamie


Arnaud wrote:
Don't know if this issue is known already, but with Thunderbird, the compose new message or reply to a message. window is not usable. basically, the screen reader believes that it's a web page, so one can't actually type some text like in an editor and reread it.
otherwize, navigation in the Thunderbird software seems to read fine, including message list, etc. 




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