David _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Hi. I have a question regarding the way Seamonkey (as well as Firefox
and Thunderbird) display the progress of activities such as downloading
email or opening a Web page.
Here is my situation. I am blind and use the open source screen reader
NVDA from
www.nvda-project.org to access my Windows computer. NVDA, like other
screen readers, allows a blind user to not only hear what is on the
screen but also allows the user to easily review what is on the screen
with navigation commands. One of NVDA's nice features is that it
provides ascending tones to indicate progress of an activity, such as
copying a large file or group of files from one folder to another.
While I can get NVDA to periodically read the progress verbally, such as
(one percent" "ten percent" etc. I can also have it indicate this with
ascending tones, which is quite nice.
In older Mozilla products I would hear these tones as email was being
downloaded. I would also hear them when opening Web pages. This was
nice as it gave me an indication of where I was in the download
process. NVDA has a command to speak the status line but I really got
used to the progress tones. I notice that Mozilla has somehow done away
with or changed this visual behavior as NVDA no longer indicates
progress bar activity when downloading mail. Does Seamonkey have an
option in about:config which can allow traditional progress bars to be
used? If it does could someone tell me which option to look for and modify?
