[orca-list] Thunderbird wil become a webbased application in near future :-(

[Christian Schoepplein <chris schoeppi net>]

Hi and sorry for the X-posting...,

regarding to a presentation at FOSDEM 2021 it is planed to make 
Thunderbird more and more a webbased application based on Electron.

I wonder what that means regarding to accessibility in Thunderbird in 
general and what graphical mailer will be available for Linux if 
Thunderbird might become inaccessible or at least very inefficient 
regarding to useability when it is a full webbased program. Also it is 
very unclear how good Thunderbird will be accessible on other plattforms 
when they change the UI that much..., so it is not only a question how 
good Thunderbird will be useable on Linux in future...

Is anyone in touch with the Thunderbird developers and can find out more 
about their plans and how much they will have accessibility in mind?

I fear they do not care much about accessibility, so the next question 
is what can we do to bring this isue more into the public?

It would be really sad to loose the only really free and good to use 
graphical mailer for Linux, and also for Windows there are not much 
alternatives left...

Cheers,

  Schoepp