Re: [orca-list] Introduction and questions

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:46:33PM -0700, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Personally, I find Thunderbird 3 works great with Orca if you don't
> require it to be a text-based email client. If you are going to be
> dealing with text-based email clients for your friend though, best
> advice I can give you is to install speakup on the text console.
> Since that might be too complex, I'd recommend sticking with GUI
> programs when possible so as to only require the use of one screen
> reader and not have your friend switch between text and graphic
> mode.
> Just my $.02

Jacob is right.  I personally have been using Thunderbird and Mutt
interchangably but I have to say that I am fastest and most efficient
with Mutt running in a native console using a kernel with Speakup
modules.  You could use mutt in a gnome terminal but I frankly find
speakup to be the better route for many text style applications.
Tunderbird is nice as you can use it in the same GUI environment along
with Firefox.  And it so happens that Firefox and Thunderbird are both
from Mozilla so they share some of the same idiosyncricies and use the
same toolkit.

I hope it goes well for your friend.
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