Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-03-12 03:36
Just to confirm, are you certain that only one tab is being visually displayed on the screen? That's usually the way that tabs work, but it'd be good to have someone with sight confirm this.

Comment 3 by kredh on 2012-03-19 09:08
I just checked it out yesterday with a friend. On the screen, the tabs are separated (no information of the tab1 on the tab2 and vice versa).

NVDA has dropped the flat review concept in favour of the three review modes. Does that make this issue irrelevant?

@bhavyashah Flat review is equivalent to NVDA's screen review today. I would think it is still valid.

@michaelDCurran Thanks for the clarification. On re-reading #2158 (comment), it now unclear to me what the bug being described actually is. Is NVDA reporting extraneous information of another tab which is not even open, or are two tabs actually open and are being simultaneously displayed and NVDA's screen review does not aid the user in distinguishing between the contents of the first and second tab, or something else? Since we may not be able to contact the original author of this ticket, I would like to invite comments from our sighted experts - @feerrenrut and @Qchristensen.

@kredh
cc: @michaelDCurran, @feerrenrut, your thoughts are very appreciated. I understand this issue as follows:
in screen review, when a single tab is open, everything is ok. When two or more tabs are open, NVDA reads the whole content in a row from left to right. This means it reads content of all opened tabs which is displayed in a row.

In my view this is not an issue in NVDA. NVDA reads out the content as it is visible on the screen line by line from left to right. This is the principle how it works in every application. In Jaws it works exactly similar to this when using jaws cursor.

Since this was reported six years ago, is anyone using the programs mentioned in the issue (Chatzilla, an IRC client, and MushCLIENT, a MUD client)? And if so, can they confirm both whether flat review is still the best way to navigate those programs, and also whether the issue still exists?

I might raise this on the user email list, since this issue came over from the old system so there is no way of contacting the original reporter.

If I hear anything back, I'll update this issue, otherwise, I recommend we leave it a couple of weeks and close it.

I am closing this issue because we do not have any other reports on it.