Re: Orca Thunderbird was: [Fwd: Announcing v2.17.92]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> Last weekend I tested the latest 3.0a1, and I found it hardly usable and
> only partial accessible.

I would advise against using Thunderbird at this time and would 
recommend staying with Evolution for the near term.  There are still a 
number of issues with accessing Thunderbird.  These issues live in 
Thunderbird and Orca, and possibly in the AT-SPI infrastructure.  Like 
Firefox, we keep working on it, though Thunderbird is slightly less of a 
priority for us than Firefox right now.

> Windows and Mac versions show the actual date. Does the Mozilla team
> continue developing the Linux version of Thunderbird, or do they advise
> Linux users to stick to Evolution?

David Bolter from the University of Toronto is working hard on fixing 
Thunderbird accessibility problems on Linux.  He's a good guy doing good 
work.  I'm not sure why the Linux nightly builds are not up to date, 
though, and have BCC'd David to see what's up.

Will