Re: [orca-list] Accessible email clients; really need an alternative to thunderbird

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> wrote:
 
> I know that another alternative might be to look at text based
> clients. The only ones I really got on with were pine and cone.
> Anyway, I feel text base clients may be off the cards as I feel Orca
> isn't great with text based software. Speakup would be my preferred
> choice for screen reader with text based software, however it just
> doesn't load on the computers I would install Linux on.

I would suggest taking up that issue on the Speakup list and having it
resolved. After that, you can run, for example, Mutt or Alpine with Speakup
and your email problems will go away. Orca with Gnome-terminal should be
usable for this purpose as well; if it isn't, you could submit bug reports.

I am a strong Emacs proponent. With Emacs and Emacspeak you have a number of
options, including vm or Gnus (which is both a mail reader and a news reader).