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

[josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

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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