Re: [orca-list] Email with orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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I messed with Evolution some and from an accessibility stand point, it
wasn't too bad.  I got it working with a local spool and with Gmail
over an IMAP connection.  I could navigate the message list and read
inside messages with no real complaints.  I need to mess with it some
more because the last time I was in there, I had to use the flat
review keys to read message contents; I would have much rather been
able to scroll down through the message contents with the standard
arrow keys.  I think there is an option to enable direct cursor
navigation within messages but I forget what it is called right now.
Open Office has the ability to allow caret navigation in read-only
documents; not sure if that helps with evolution though.

The really big hit for me though was the inability to get Evolution to
deal with my local IMAP server.  Whenever it began scanning the
folders available on my server, all things appeared to hang or crash.
While evolution is doing this, Orca is silent.  The only way I ever
got speech back was to alt tab to a terminal if I could find it
without any speech and kill evolution.  Once evolution was gone,
speech came back.  I don't have the one or more hours to get evolution
to finish scanning folders on my local IMAP server so I am now using
mutt over a gnome terminal.  Actually, one cool thing I can do even
from mutt is while in a gnome terminal I can right click any URL in a
message or any other text in the gnome terminal for that matter and
one of the choices is to open link.  When I choose that, it opens up
firefox for me to that link.  Can't do that in a plain text console
very easily.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:13:45AM +0100, Georgina wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Well I'm in a position where I can return to Linux for my email needs.  I've
> looked up how to move messages from Outlook to Evolution etc.  On looking at
> the accessible applications page it would appear that Evolution would be the
> better choice.  I wondered if Evolution was still the better option?  I also
> wondered whether there was a configuration guide for orca users?  I'd prefer
> to have controls that I rarely use out of the way but accessible from a pull
> down menu for example.  Or is the extensive orca scripting require the
> default layout.  I'd like to configure Evolution to load and be immediately
> focused upon messages in the in box.  Does this approach work well for
> others?
>   
> Many thanks.
>
> Gena
>
> Ready 2 Go Linux
>
> http://www.ready2golinux.com
>
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