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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I know of YASR, however I know little of using it. As far as I know it is currently no longer maintained, so 
this raises questions. How well did it work? Might it just break on me with some update as it will not be 
modified to work with new packages? How much help might I get with it should I have problems (IE. how many 
users are there, what is the YASR community like)?

These questions are more why I haven't looked into it myself, but if I had answers then I possibly would look 
into it.

Michael Whapples
On 19 Nov 2011, at 10:51, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Have you tried yasr yet? On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Michael Whapples wrote:
>
> > I raised my speakup issues on the speakup list some time ago, however the
> > messages went with little response and no solution. My kernel debugging skills
> > are not up to much, I think I extracted the error messages associated with
> > loading the speakup module from the kernel log file, but with no help on other
> > ways I could debug I could do no more in finding the source of the problem.
> > You can tell why I have made the blanket statement that using things with
> > speakup is no longer an option for me. I could post more messages, but I
> > wouldn't hold out much hope, I think I might spend effort where greater
> > results may be gained.
> >
> > As for emacs its never clicked with me, and emacspeak is just complication
> > upon complication (complication of learning emacs which seems unnatural with
> > the complication of learning emacspeak).
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On -10/01/37 20:59, Jason White wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
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> > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
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>
> Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net>
> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>