Open the message a reply was made to - #2044
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Touching what is drawn over a message goes to the message it answers. Doing the same with a screen reader did nothing at all, on every message in a topic and in the comments under a channel post, and on some messages elsewhere. Three conditions stood between the two. A thread was refused outright unless the message carried the id of the one the thread was started from, which a topic and a comment thread do not always have; a reply to a story was left out; and where the message was a forward, the same place holds where it came from rather than a reply, and touching it goes there, which was not done. The touch is one place and this was another, and they had drifted. What happens now is what happens on a touch, asked for in the same order. What is drawn there is also named for what it is: a forward said it was a reply, whatever it went on to open.
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Summary
Touching what is drawn over a message goes to the message it answers.
Doing the same with a screen reader did nothing at all, on every message
in a topic and in the comments under a channel post, and on some messages
elsewhere.
Three conditions stood between the two. A thread was refused outright
unless the message carried the id of the one the thread was started from,
which a topic and a comment thread do not always have; a reply to a story
was left out; and where the message was a forward, the same place holds
where it came from rather than a reply, and touching it goes there, which
was not done.
The touch is one place and this was another, and they had drifted. What
happens now is what happens on a touch, asked for in the same order.
What is drawn there is also named for what it is: a forward said it was a
reply, whatever it went on to open.
Checking it
With TalkBack on, in a forum topic or in the comments under a channel post, swipe onto the reply shown above a message and double tap it.
Before, nothing happened at all. Now it goes to the message being replied to, as tapping it does.
A reply to a story, and a forwarded message, where the same place holds where it came from, are the other cases this covers.