After activating gnome-text-editor, the focused widget is not the text area
When trying the application with the Orca screen reader, i noticed that if you switch to gnome-text-editor from anywhere else, you get only a focused event for the top level window. The result is that you can type to the editor, but you can not read the text and do similar common operations as Orca thinks that the text control is not focused and ignores all events from it. When you restart Orca and don't change the active window, the focused event is send and you can actually read the text control.