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Issue With Thunderbird And Account Settings In A Recent Update
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Ron Canazzi
Hi Group,
In an attempt to help a person on another list, I wanted to see what port configuration was used by Gmail, I think it is 467 and 995, but I wanted to be sure. In any case, when I go to tools/account settings, something has changed with a recent version of Thunderbird. There used to be an accessible tree view for each account you had set up which you could access by using the up/down arrow keys and the tab and shift + tab keystrokes. Now when I access the account settings, all that is visible is one element of a tree view that does not read a name and then an HTML type interface that is largely unusable. Has anyone else tried to manually edit their account settings recently and have you experienced this issue? If so, is there a solution? Thanks for any help. -- Signature: For a nation to admit it has done grevous wrongs and will strive to correct them for the betterment of all is no vice; For a nation to claim it has always been great, needs no improvement and to cling to its past achievements is no virtue!
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Ron Canazzi
Hi Group,
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Well its almost American Football time so as they say in the NFL 'upon further review,' in an attempt to see what was going on in my account settings in Thunderbird, I switched from browse mode to edit mode with insert + space bar. I then used the tab and what do you know, with one back tab, I landed on a fully accessible tree view which I could then navigate with up/down arrow keys and access the various items with tab and shift tab. This is new behavior, but you get the proper results once you realize what you have to do. BTW, the proper ports for GMail are 465 for SMTP and 995 for pop/imap.
On 8/5/2021 10:40 AM, Ron Canazzi wrote:
Hi Group, --
Signature: For a nation to admit it has done grevous wrongs and will strive to correct them for the betterment of all is no vice; For a nation to claim it has always been great, needs no improvement and to cling to its past achievements is no virtue!
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Gene
I suspect the problem is that you are in browse mode or that the virtual pc
cursor is active, depending on your screen-reader. When I am in an
interface like this where I can’t vfind what I should find, I check to see if I
can turn off browse mode in NVDA or the virtual pc cursor in JAWS.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Canazzi
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2021 9:40 AM
Subject: [nvda] Issue With Thunderbird And Account Settings In A
Recent Update Hi
Group, In an attempt to help a person on another list, I wanted to see what port configuration was used by Gmail, I think it is 467 and 995, but I wanted to be sure. In any case, when I go to tools/account settings, something has changed with a recent version of Thunderbird. There used to be an accessible tree view for each account you had set up which you could access by using the up/down arrow keys and the tab and shift + tab keystrokes. Now when I access the account settings, all that is visible is one element of a tree view that does not read a name and then an HTML type interface that is largely unusable. Has anyone else tried to manually edit their account settings recently and have you experienced this issue? If so, is there a solution? Thanks for any help. -- Signature: For a nation to admit it has done grevous wrongs and will strive to correct them for the betterment of all is no vice; For a nation to claim it has always been great, needs no improvement and to cling to its past achievements is no virtue!
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Gene
The solution you found and that I discussed works in various browsers as
well. It may work in other programs but browsers and Thunderbird are where
I have found this to be necessary to see the full interface. And it may be
necessary to work with history as well.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2021 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Issue With Thunderbird And Account Settings In A
Recent Update I suspect the problem is that you are in browse mode or that the virtual pc
cursor is active, depending on your screen-reader. When I am in an
interface like this where I can’t vfind what I should find, I check to see if I
can turn off browse mode in NVDA or the virtual pc cursor in JAWS.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Canazzi
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2021 9:40 AM
Subject: [nvda] Issue With Thunderbird And Account Settings In A
Recent Update Hi
Group, In an attempt to help a person on another list, I wanted to see what port configuration was used by Gmail, I think it is 467 and 995, but I wanted to be sure. In any case, when I go to tools/account settings, something has changed with a recent version of Thunderbird. There used to be an accessible tree view for each account you had set up which you could access by using the up/down arrow keys and the tab and shift + tab keystrokes. Now when I access the account settings, all that is visible is one element of a tree view that does not read a name and then an HTML type interface that is largely unusable. Has anyone else tried to manually edit their account settings recently and have you experienced this issue? If so, is there a solution? Thanks for any help. -- Signature: For a nation to admit it has done grevous wrongs and will strive to correct them for the betterment of all is no vice; For a nation to claim it has always been great, needs no improvement and to cling to its past achievements is no virtue!
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