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



Hi.

Actually I am using VSCode, an application based on electron 11 and it is quite accessible.

If TB uses electron for the interface, I think we will have no problems regarding accessibility.

On 2/8/21 07:26, Christian Schoepplein via orca-list wrote:
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
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