Re: thunderbird 3.0 beta accessibility issues

On 12/03/2009 8:47 AM, luca wrote:
> 1) In the folder list pressing a letter doesnt focus the corresponding
> folder starting with that letter: its quite inconvenient to arrow trough
> all folders to search the one i want.
This is annoying, yes. You could try the Nostalgy extension, although 
I've had some problems with it lately. I blogged about a related issue here:
http://blog.jantrid.net/2009/02/quickly-selecting-folder-with-keyboard.html

I don't actually think there is a bug report filed for this. There is:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226874
but I've recently realised that this actually relates to the menu that 
comes up when moving or copying messages, not the folder selection tree. 
This probably needs to be filed as a new bug unless I've missed an 
existing bug in my searches.

Note that this behaviour is probably at least partially due to the fact 
that Thunderbird uses some alphanumeric keyboard shortcuts for commands; 
e.g. n for next new message. However, one could argue that these could 
be disabled while in the folder tree view.

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