OK, the only reason I asked for your eyes was that apparently some
blind people on the list thought there should be some sort of
dialogue appearing that NVDA did not detect. I didn't mean any
offense to you.
On 4/29/2022 10:30 AM, Brian Vogel
wrote:
The following is
not meant to be snarky, as I am always happy to take a literal
"look see" and report what's going on, but this is a situation
where it's expected that the end user (and that included me)
familiarize themselves with how a given feature works when the
results you think you should have don't show up.
I had no idea "Send Later" existed. When I did my first two test
messages with it I had no idea where they'd disappeared to, and
they could not be found with a Thunderbird message search. I had
to do a web search to find that article on where messages go when
"Send Later" is used.
I have, both visually and via narration by NVDA, absolutely
nothing indicated to me as a sighted end user when "Send Later" is
employed. It was as much a mystery to me as it has been to many
of you. The only reason I have any idea of what Thunderbird is
doing with these messages is having found that article. The only
value added here from me is telling you that we, the sighted, do
not get any sort of additional cue about what happens when you
choose "Send Later" than a screen reader user does. The message
just gets silently (as in no dialog of any sort) shuttled to the
local Outbox. And as that article from way back in 2014
indicates, that's as mystifying to those of us who can see as it
is to you all, particularly if the local Outbox folder is so low
on the folder tree that it is not visible unless you scroll to it,
which is how it is in my instance of Thunderbird, since I have two
Gmail accounts with many IMAP folders/labels associated with each.
I'd have no idea of how this was supposed to work without having
done that web search. And now that I do know how it works I find
it to be a mystifying feature that serves no purpose that saving a
completed draft doesn't. If you could actually schedule a time
for sending later, that would be another matter, not that I would
likely use that feature, either, but at least it has a fully
separate function. I prefer that a message I've completed, but
don't want to send right now, stays in Drafts.
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