Re: [orca-list] thunderbird getting bad to worst, is evolution a good choice?




Mutt and alpine are usable in the gnome terminal, with orca. They may need a little configuration in order to get a cursor Orca can easily track, but, it's pretty simple. I use alpine in the terminal, and include a sample configuration that makes it very accessible with Orca. The file is editable in your favorite text thing, and is well commented. In my recent experience, Evolution is not at all usable anymore.




On 04/09/2012 09:34 AM, krishnakant Mane wrote:
Hello,
I am thinking of trying mutt after reading one manual.
I only wish to know if I can use orca with it?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On 09/04/2012, Michael Whapples<mwhapples aim com>  wrote:
Hello,
I know what you mean about thunderbird getting worse, I decided I had
enough some time ago. Evolution in my mind wasn't a great experience
either (some of it was me not liking the way evolution does things
rather than me hitting accessibility bugs like in thunderbird). For me
text based email clients are the only way to go on Linux.

You asked some specific questions about how orca might interact, I don't
know because I always have used text based clients with speakup. I have
used pine (alpine I believe behaves very similar as its based on pine)
and cone and with speakup both were very pleasant experiences. I believe
from others mutt is also very good with speakup.

I don't have the same need for search facilities as my inbox is much
smaller, so I cannot really say whether alpine or cone would do, but I
understand mutt is very powerful (the slight extra complexity of mutt
because of the extra power has been what stopped me using it, cone was
perfectly adequate for my needs and didn't have such a learning curve).

Michael Whapples
On 09/04/2012 12:40, krishnakant Mane wrote:
On 09/04/2012, Jason White<jason jasonjgw net>   wrote:
krishnakant Mane<krmane gmail com>   wrote:
I have to read and reply a lot of emails every day.
I have a lot of attachments that come my way in form of odt and ods
files.
I need to often attach documents myself.
I also need a good serch feature so that I can look at my archives.
With my given requirement, is alpine good or mutt?
Either would be fine.

Mutt is better if you like regular expressions: you can search and limit
the
displayed messages via regular expression matching, and there's also now
a
script that enables you to use Notmuch with Mutt. I haven't tried it yet,
but
it's on my list of possible enhancements.
Hi jasen,
I think one problem with commandline email clients would be that I
can't have the entire email spoken by Orca?
if yes, then can I also browse the mail body line by line?
Secondly, if I choose alpine, what all search featurs are available?
and finally do I move in the list of emails by up and down arrows?  do
I hear the subjects like I do in thunderbird?
are there shortcuts for sorting the mails by date?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.



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