Re: [orca-list] Navigating Thunderbird with Orca

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> hi
> I suspect numerous accessibility bugs in thunderbird itself, actually.
> Typing in messages can be extremely slow, eventually grinding to a
> hault, causing orca to no longer announce new characters, or be able
> to navigate. If a debug log is needed I can provide one. The message
> lag is well known and has already been filed with thunderbird
> developers. I think they're working on a fix. i didn't know about the
> alt 1 shortcut, I'll try that next time thunderbird decides not to
> read with orca.

Part of the problem is that Thunderbird is officially being maintained only
for bug fixes (including security). Mozilla all but dropped support for it.

I still think Mutt is the best mail solution under Linux at this point, except
possibly one of the Emacs clients.

In fact, I think Mutt is better than anything I have used under any operating
system so far as mail handling is concerned.