Re: [orca-list] Email with orca

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Di 22. Apr 2008 um 15:56:32 schrieb Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>:
> 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.

You need to activate caret navigation, which you can find in the view menu, 
or, if I remember well, press F7.
You also should deactivate message preview, that's in the view menu too, in 
one of its submenus.
I cannot remember whether there's the possibility to import Outlook, but 
unfortunately all MS mail clients don't use the mbox standard.

> Open Office has the ability to allow caret navigation in read-only
> documents; not sure if that helps with evolution though.
 
I think no. Evolution comes with OO too, but it's a program of its own.

> 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.
 
Try to install urlview, so you can do this easily in the text console; 
don't know whether that app is available over the Slackware repo.
Hermann