Comment 1 by Palacee_hun on 2014-07-12 15:04
Firefox may be in play here, as I use Firefox 8 (!), and do not experience this problem, NVDA correctly returns. I note here that in my experience much outdated Firefox versions seem to perform better with NVDA in some situations, that's why I don't update on my main PC.

Comment 2 by blindbhavya on 2014-07-12 15:57
Hi.
Firefox 8 is really very outdated.
Can NVDA in any way do something to get this correct in Firefox 30 and in any other web browser?

Comment 4 by mdcurran on 2014-12-09 01:52
We understand why this is occurring. But to fix it would take quite a bit of work and very likely have consequences for other websites. For now we're leaving this ticket open in case someone can come up with something that won't break everything else. But we're not pursuing it as a priority.

Technical:
Although its called Basic HTML view, it seems that the page is however extremely dynamic and does use javascript.
The problem is that when you go back to the inbox, the page loads with nothing in it, and then content such as the email list is slowly populated. When NVDA restores the last position, that email list does not exist yet.
It may be possible to fix by:

• while the document is busy:
  • don't restore the previous position
  • Don't do a sayAll
• When the document is no longer busy (document load complete event):
  • If the user has not moved around at all:
  • restore the previous position
  • do sayAll

Note however there are other pages we have seen that take an extremely long time to stop being busy, or in some cases do not ever stop being busy.

An interesting side note about this page: Although we would not recommend it, if you disable javascript in your browser, The bug with this page goes away. No doubt there must be a javascript and a non-javascript version of the Basic HTML page.

As the original author of this ticket, keeping in mind @michaelDCurran's #4271 (comment), I would be happy for this issue to be assigned a P4.

@mltony Dows your last pull request solve this issue? If yes, maybe we should reference this issue in it as well. Thanks.

@bhavyashah I guess you can still reproduce this issue. Right?

@Adriani90, I couldn't reproduce this issue either in Chrome or Firefox on my machine. Regardless of that, I doubt my browse mode PR would affect this issue - but I could be wrong. With my PR NVDA still accepts focus events from the browser, so if gmail wants to focus on the beginning of the page, NVDA would honor this request even with my PR.

I cannot reproduce this issue either with NVDA 2019.1.1. I am closing as works for me, given also that we didn't hear anything from Bhavya. I you are still having this problem, please comment on it and we can reopen the discussion. Thanks!