Re: Thunderbird will become a webbased application - What about accessibility?
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Rosemarie Chavarria
I decided to switch to the mail app. Thunderbird did work well with NVDA. For me, it was much easier to use an email client rather than web-based email.
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From: Hope Williamson
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 8:05 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Thunderbird will become a webbased application - What about accessibility?
Well, most email can be done via the web anyway. I agree that Thunderbird is more efficient, but I didn't start using it until 2017. I used web-based interfaces from 2003 until then.
On 2/8/2021 6:46 AM, Chris Smart wrote: > True, and that is one reason why I eventually left Eudora. > > > > On 2021-02-08 9:45 a.m., zvonimir stanečić, 9a5dsz wrote: >> You need to have the newest versions nowadays, because of the security. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Chris Smart >> Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 3:44 PM >> To: nvda@nvda.groups.io >> Subject: Re: [nvda] Thunderbird will become a webbased application - >> What about accessibility? >> >> Another thought: >> >> Why does anyone need to use the very latest version of Thunderbird, >> if an older one still works just fine? >> >> >> This is a ridiculous example, but I held on to Eudora 7 for almost a >> decade, and only switched to Thunderbird in the past year. Why? Because >> it still worked under Windows 10. >> >> Perhaps that won't be possible this time around, but other than security >> concerns, or the way email works being changed in a fundamental way, I >> can't see much changing in how we create, send, and receive email any >> time soon. Email is very very old. >> >> >> On 2021-02-08 5:37 a.m., Christian Schoepplein wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> 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 other free graphical mailer will be available for >>> Windows if Thunderbird might become inaccessible or at least very >>> inefficient regarding to useability when it is a full webbased program. >>> >>> 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 Windows. AFAIK there are not much alternatives >>> left then, which is a real shame for such a central and important form >>> of communication for blind people, especialy in this very challenging >>> times :-(. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Schoepp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
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