Re: Geary accessibility

Hello Kyle,
I would be interested to know whether you are also suffering from the 
following Thunderbird issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924915

I am using 4 accounts with some huge imap folders here and I really find 
this a critical issue no mather which version of Thunderbird I am 
running higher than Thunderbird 17.

Thanks and greetings

Peter


On 27.06.2014 00:14, Kyle wrote:
> I recently tried Geary, Sylpheed, Claws-mail, Balsa and Evolution. All
> have various issues that make them nearly unusable with Orca. Balsa is
> one of the best other than Thunderbird, but it's hard to read a message
> once it's open. The message shows up in a read-only textbox, but the
> arrow keys don't work. Everything else works as expected, although the
> message list could be just a little less verbose.
>
> Regarding Geary, I had many of the same problems as described by the OP.
> Sylpheed still has an unreadable message list, but I am able to compose
> a message, although coming from Thunderbird, that shift+control+e
> keyboard shortcut to send a message is a bit counterintuitive, as I'm
> used to pressing control+enter to send the composed message. I also
> can't open a message in Sylpheed. I like opening messages in their own
> windows/tabs, but Sylpheed makes this impossible, or nearly so. Once I
> did find a message, I was only able to read portions of it from
> something like a preview pane, and couldn't get it into a separate
> window or tab. Claws-mail worked, or didn't work, in much the same ways
> as Sylpheed. The unreadable message list is also still a problem in the
> latest stable version of Evolution, 3.12.3 as of this post. I must
> wonder just how hard it could be to render a message list that can be
> read by Orca. If it's anything like what I was seeing in some of the
> MATE code that had to be done to create accessible objects and make them
> speak, I can certainly understand how easy it can be to get it wrong, as
> it appears that nearly everything has to be done twice, i.e. the object
> has to be created, and then a second accessible object has to be created
> in order to speak the first object. That is unless I somehow misread the
> code. I'm not all that familiar with how gtk code is supposed to look,
> so I could be way off about that part.
>
> For now, the best solution I've found for reading mail is Thunderbird
> nightly builds. They are far more usable than any other graphical
> client, including the stable Thunderbird builds. They fixed the problem
> where the wrong message was being spoken once a message was deleted from
> the list, so the entire experience with Thunderbird nightly is much more
> smooth. At this point, I would recommend pulling down a nightly build of
> Thunderbird, as it's the best thing going for now, at least until some
> of the issues with other clients are fixed.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/