+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1844256 +++ Thunderbird user Amir on social media reported some problems navigating the message list with NVDA and JAWS. ([Link to initial report](https://tweesecake.social/@alecaddd@mastodon.social/110713334788638516)). Amir's description: > With JAWS, if Thunderbird is running and JAWS is launched later, we can no longer read messages. That is, as Enter is pressed on a message and it opens, JAWS fails to capture it in its virtual buffer. Using JAWS key+Z doesn't help either. Testing was done with JAWS June 2023 and NVDA Alpha 28685 on Windows 11 22H2 (OS Build 22621.1992). @aleca responded: > I have a feeling some of those issues are up to the a11y tools to update themselves since our message list is not a XUL tree anymore, but a plane HTML table, with native semantics that shouldn’t require any strange workaround like the old UI. We’ll get to the bottom of these! Amir also shared: > It also seems to me that a couple of them, namely the issue affecting NVDA key+Up, needs to be addressed by NVAccess as JAWS works well in that area. Looking forward to future Thunderbird releases with more accessibility fixes.
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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1844256 +++ Thunderbird user Amir on social media reported some problems navigating the message list with NVDA and JAWS. ([Link to initial report](https://tweesecake.social/@alecaddd@mastodon.social/110713334788638516)). Amir's description: > With JAWS, if Thunderbird is running and JAWS is launched later, we can no longer read messages. That is, as Enter is pressed on a message and it opens, JAWS fails to capture it in its virtual buffer. Using JAWS key+Z doesn't help either. > Testing was done with JAWS June 2023 and NVDA Alpha 28685 on Windows 11 22H2 (OS Build 22621.1992). @aleca responded: > I have a feeling some of those issues are up to the a11y tools to update themselves since our message list is not a XUL tree anymore, but a plane HTML table, with native semantics that shouldn’t require any strange workaround like the old UI. We’ll get to the bottom of these! Amir also shared: > It also seems to me that a couple of them, namely the issue affecting NVDA key+Up, needs to be addressed by NVAccess as JAWS works well in that area. Looking forward to future Thunderbird releases with more accessibility fixes.