Re: [orca-list] Test: Thunderbird has improved, and seems to work rather stable

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Fr 16. Mai 2008 um 09:57:24 schrieb Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>:
> I've had little experience with Thunderbird so far but lately got it to work
> pretty well.  I don't know about any preferred settings but I tabbed around
> a few times and managed to get the message list to work right.  I honestly
> can't say exactly what I did.  A couple times, I got into the list but later
> lost speech in it and it usually got fixed when I quit out of T Bird and
> restarted it; hardly a viable solution but the past 3 or 4 times I was in
> there, I never lost proper focus in the message list.  The tree list of mail
> folders always worked for me.  I loved the speed of navigation within a
> message body.
 
In order to set up Thunderbird for use with screen readers - and this is 
also true for Windows - you should deactivate the message preview by 
pressing F8. After this you get only two structures, the folders and the 
messages list. That's the most important suggestion I make.
You also might adjust the layout in the view menu by deactivating the tool 
bar and switch to classical view, if it isn't done by default.
To answer all questions in one mail:
I rarely use the flat review keys, so haven't tested it in 
Thunderbird. Maybe there's to do some work.
You switch the Gecko navigation by pressing Orca+F12. Note: If you do this 
while reading mails, you can't read at all, it's only useful when editing 
messages.
The ommission of blank lines I only observed in the editing mode. But if 
you 
switch to Gecko navigation, the structure of the text is recognized.
Hermann