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exposing selection state of folders in saved search dialogues and other places

ke7zum — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:37:29 GMT

Hello,

I am visually impaired and use NVDA, a screen reader available at https://www.nvaccess.org. I have observed that within Thunderbird, specifically in saved searches and various dialogues such as offline sync management, the states of folders—whether selected or not—are not communicated to screen readers. I tested this using Narrator as well, which consistently reports folders as selected, even when this is inaccurate. I was able to reproduce this issue on Thunderbird 115 and am currently running version 140.5.0esr (64-bit).

To replicate the issue:

Launch NVDA.
Open Thunderbird.
Create a saved search.
Access the properties of the newly created folder.
Click "Choose" and use the arrow keys to navigate; you will notice the selection state is not voiced.
Perform the same steps under File and Offline dialogs—the behavior persists.

There is another area in Settings, possibly related to cache, where this issue may also occur, although I cannot recall the exact location at this time.

I would appreciate it if this matter could be investigated further.

Thank you very much.

Re: exposing selection state of folders in saved search dialogues and other places

siffemcon — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:23:47 GMT

You could file a bug for that at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi/.

Re: exposing selection state of folders in saved search dialogues and other places

ke7zum — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:47:28 GMT

thanks. I was unsure if this was a bug so decided to post it here to be on the safe side. I will ge tworking on this.

Re: exposing selection state of folders in saved search dialogues and other places

siffemcon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:55:53 GMT

Maybe a bug, maybe not. And if so, maybe a TB bug or a NVDA bug. Please post the link to the bug here.

Re: exposing selection state of folders in saved search dialogues and other places

ke7zum — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:55:29 GMT

I believe this is the link to the bug.

Thanks so much.