[orca-list] accessibility of evolution, (was is it just me, or is thunderbird much faster now?)

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

I read messages here a while back saying Evolution might be getting 
accessible.  Anybody know if this is true?

Al

On 9/28/2014 2:19 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using Thunderbird 32 stable and I haven't noticed much more
> improvements than what Joanie managed to implement in orca during gnome
> 3.14 development cycle.
> I am afraid Mozilla's resources are much more limited when it comes to
> accessibility than they used to be in the past.
> They are now focusing on Firefox OS accessibility with windows and
> android as a second class citizens on their radar and mac and linux
> accessibility will only receive common multi platform accessibility and
> performance related improvements I am afraid.
>
> This is just my interpretation of what I have seen recently so hopefully
> I am mistaken.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 27.09.2014 at 23:53 Burt Henry wrote:
> > I've pretty much stopped using thunderbird as of several months ago
> > although it was my first email client of the "modern age". This was
> > partially for personal reasons and temporary, and as of tb 32 or33
> > nightly builds the sync issue that had driven me away from t-bird for
> > a year or so was a temporary situation.
> > I gave it at spin just now, and am very impressed with the overall
> > responsiveness, and so far am not having any problems.
> > I am using a nightly build.
> > My question is:
> > why is it so much fster than I've seen, maybe ever on Linux or windows?
> > I am using a faster computer than I've had of late, so some could be
> > this, but my doubt is whether the recent changes to orca have improved
> > t-bird prefomance for all, and a lot, or is this something in current
> > nightly builds that has greatly improved the interaction with orca?
> > Thanks much for your feedback.
> > While I'll keep using mutt a lot, this snappy thunderbird is great,
> > and I'm really glad to have it back in my toolkit.
>
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