Comment 1 by mdcurran on 2010-07-21 06:26
I don't think there is any simple way to fix this right now, certainly not in 2010.2.
No doubt the problem is with the display model not yet properly handling RTL text.
Work does need to be made on display model to support this, but at the moment, I suggest using the Windows Live beta or waiting until the next Windows Live Version. The New Windows Live applications now implement a much better way for screen readers to gain access to the Windows Live edit fields, including the message input field.

Leaving this ticket open as the problem should still eventually be fixed for older Windows Live versions as its a good example of RTL with the display model.
Changes:
Milestone changed from 2010.2 to None

Comment 2 by orcauser on 2011-05-08 13:54
noting that this problem persists with messenger 2011, and bzr main.
Changes:
Changed title from "problem with windows live, and arabic, with newest snapshots" to "problem with windows live, and RTL"

Comment 3 by Shaimaa on 2011-05-13 14:21
IN using RTL versions of Windows Live Messenger, NVDA doesn't report the incoming messages at all and it keeps silent. even if we moved and tried to read using the arrow keys. It doesn't report anything at all. Hope this problem is to be solved soon.

Comment 4 by fatma.mehanna on 2011-05-18 10:47
dear developers,
we observed the following during our usage to arabic and english windows live messenger 2011 :
what i'm going to mention is applicable to both Arabic and English msn
1 we can use the left and the right arrows to move between the characters before sending our message.
2 we also can use ctrl + left and right arrows to move between words.
3 the outgoing and the incoming messages can be read with nvda.
but the problems are:
1 during typing, nvda reads the arabic characters as english ones, but during checking it reads them well.
2 windows live messenger 2011 version is working under windows vista and windows 7 os and still most of us use windows xp.
thanks

Comment 5 by orcauser on 2011-05-18 13:40
What Fatma means here is that for vista/win7, things are mostly ok, only that the echo of typed characters are wrong.
When you switch to arabic layout, you press the key next to caps lock, and it should say sheen, but what is actually is spoken is 'a'.
When you step back and check it, you indeed see that sheen was actually inserted.

for windows xp (still very widely used throughout the middle east/north africa), nothing is spoken as initially described by this ticket.

Thanks.

Comment 6 by orcauser (in reply to comment 3) on 2011-05-18 13:49
Replying to Shaimaa:
The problem of reading incoming messages has been fixed, in main rev 4230.

Comment 7 by MHameed on 2013-03-07 14:42
I wonder if this was fixed by the solutions for either #2376 or #2411.
Please test or ask arabic users to give feedback.
Thanks.

Comment 8 by fatma.mehanna on 2013-04-01 07:58
as for this ticket, i stopped using windows live messenger and it is no longer be maintained.
but technically, are the edit fields in msn look like the edit fields in skype?
if they are similar, this ticket should be closed as fixed, as now we can use the arrow keys to move between words and chars in the chat edit field.
thanks.

Comment 9 by jteh on 2013-04-01 22:03
Does this also apply to Windows Live Mail? If not, this ticket should be closed as wontfix, since Messenger is being discontinued.

Comment 10 by fatma.mehanna on 2013-04-03 11:58
closed as wont fix, as windows live mail doesn't have this problem and windows live messenger no longer being maintained.
Changes:
Added labels: wontfix
State: closed