1636785 - Unwanted or unexpected announcements using the NVDA screen reader

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[disciple1211]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

While NVDA is running press enter to open an email.

Actual results:

1. NVDA begins speaking the "loading message" announcement although it usually gets cut off before the announcement completes.
2. Status messages when the message is being saved to the Drafts folder is being announced.
3. When moving to a link within a message the target URL is also being announced following the link's label.
4. When pressing ctrl-enter to send the message the beginning of the message "assembling mail information" is heard.

Expected results:

Previously, these messages described in the previous field were not announced.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity is normal and has not been changed, and this bug's priority is -- (none,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, version 115 has many improvements to accessibility. If you are still having difficulty when using version 115, please file a new bug so we can address the issue.