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

[Alex ARNAUD <aarnaud hypra fr>]

    Hello Christian,
    
    Which FOSDEM conference are you talking about precisely ? I don't
    see anything related to Thunderbird and Electron.
    
    Just to be sure, don't you confused Electron and Electrolysis ?
    Electrolysis means moving Thunderbird to a multi-process
    architecture as Firefox did years ago. Electron is a chromium-based
    framework.
    
    To complete what others say, Thunderbird is already based on web
    technology because it is built on top of Firefox technologies.
    
    The Hypra company makes it best to raise accessibility topic into
    the Thunderbird community. 
    
    We still need more Orca users of Thunderbird Daily and more people
    involved to ensure Thunderbird will keep accessibility as a
    priority. Thunderbird Daily is the equivalent of Orca master, Chrome
    Unstable or Firefox Nightly.
    
    As usual, donating money to the Thunderbird project is helpful to
    help to keep it maintained.
    
    Thanks for sharing the news with us.

Le 08/02/2021 à 11:26, Christian Schoepplein via orca-list a écrit :

> 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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