397931 - Accessibility: the focus is not fully placed into composition window on "reply" or "forward"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Victor Tsaran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: version 3.0a1pre (2007092703)

When either replying to or forwarding an existing message, the programmatic focus is not fully placed into composition window, thus, screen reader technology cannot discern the content of the window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Test with screen readers, like JAWS or Window-eyes.
2. Pick a message from the folder and hit "reply".
3. Start typing your text and then hit ReadCurrentLine or use arrow keys to attempt to read the text in the window.

Actual Results:  
The text is not read and screen reader says "blank".

Expected Results:  
Screen readers should read character by character, line by line, just like in previous versions of Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Victor, is this still an issue for you? I've not seen this fail for me in ages using either NVDA or JAWS 9.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Victor, do you still see this problem?

I don't use screen reader, but using send link from firefox frequently and focus is first in body and after short delay goes to addressing.   there have been several such bugs in the past. related?

Comment 3

[Victor Tsaran]

No, this problem does not seem to exist any more. This bug can be  closed.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks Victor.  WORKSFORME is the correct resolution code - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#resolution