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

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

Electron uses chromium as an engine and thanks to Joanie and others, chromium is accessible with orca.

There can certainly be accessibility problems, but not because they are using electron.

On 2/8/21 08:38, Francisco Tissera wrote:

Interesting! I guess the accessibility of the app itself doesn’t depend on electron, but something else.

Well, I’ll have to subit a therow report to the signal foundation about this then.

 

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From: josé Vilmar Estácio de Souza
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:03 PM
To: Christian Schoepplein; orca-list gnome org
Subject: 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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