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

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

Hi,

As suggested, I gave KMail a try, which ended quickly.  I went through 
the account setup and KWallet wizards, where all seemed to work as 
expected.  In the account setup, I chose to let the program find the 
settings for my provider.  Since this is gmail, it found the right 
settings and connected to the imap server.  When the setup finished, I 
had as many as 5 progress bars on screen, and could hear nothing but 
their updates, when KMail window was in the focus.  When they finished, 
I could read the welcome screen, a text box, a message status combo box, 
the 'new tab' button, and two controls, identified by orca as 'tree', 
and 'list', with no descriptive names or apparent contents.  I'm 
guessing that 'tree' is the folder list, and 'list' is the message 
index.  The welcome message never changed.

Since the start of KMail, the application-specific orca scripts for 
programs like firefox, thunderbird, and pidgin will not load, when I 
switch focus to them.  Restarting orca with the '--replace' option, 
seems to have fixed the trouble with the loading of some app-specific 
scripts, but pressing of 'alt-tab' switches applications, but orca does 
not speak until I release the keys.  I'd previously noticed this 
script-start trouble when running the Unity-2d shell, which, I think, is 
a qt4-based app?


System Setup:

Ubuntu 12.-04 (all updates current as of 8:00 AM EDT today;
orca 3.5.1pre;
Gnome-fallback session.


Cheers,



Dave  Hunt





On 04/09/2012 07:26 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Frederik Gladhorn<frederik gladhorn de>  wrote:
>> in the discussion of accessible mail clients, I'll throw in a new 
candidate.
>>
>> I'd like feedback on the latest KMail.
>> Last summer Jose Milan worked on improving that.
>
> I've heard that it is a good mail user agent, so it would be well worth
> testing if someone has time.
>
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