Re: Evolution and Gnopernicus

["Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Krister.
I have had  much of the same problem with evolution as you are having.  One
way to get at the message text is to reply to the message which allows you
then to arrow  through the original message text. It is a major pain, but it
sometimes works.
Balsa seams to be alot more accessible than evolution, but my problem with
balsa is pop works good, but sending messages out via smtp causes the email
client to crash sometimes.
As far as colors, themes, backgrounds, etc they do not effect gnopernicus
proformence with Gnome apps. What effects proformence is how well
applications interact with the Gnome accessibility API, what widgits are
used, etc.
I'm not real clear on how the Gnome API really works and which libraries do
what, but I do know the majority of accessibility strongly depends on how
well applications can comunicate to gnopernicus through the Gnome
Accessibility API.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom bredband net>
To: "gnome-accessibility-list" <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 8:32 AM
Subject: Evolution and Gnopernicus


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> Hi  gnome-accessibility-list,
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>   I'm currently trying out the Evolution email and calendar and lots
>   more-program version 2.x. It looks really promising, however, the
>   things that i'm now going to relate make me confused, because i
>   don't know if it's a gnome issue or one with Gnopernicus or
>   Evolution so i don't know where to complain, really.
>   When i'm in the message list of Evolution, i can't read the mails so
>   i don't know if it's ok to delete them or if i should open them. The
>   thing i hear is "tree table". Sometimes when i'm in the message
>   list, i can open the mails just fine and sometimes not even though
>   the folder list says i am on for example the inbox and it contains 2
>   messages. When in mail reading or composing window, i can read mail
>   just fine, but highlighting the mails text makes Gnopernicus say
>   nothing, that is if i move down lines with Shift+arrow up or down,
>   nothing gets spoken. The menus work fine, however.
>   Does Gnome have themes like Windblows? Is that something you'll have
>   to turn off in order to get things more accessible in Gnome? Does
>   Gnopernicus have difficulties reading highlighted text in certain
>   programs? I noticed the same behaviour with highlighted text in
>   Openoffice.org a while back. If these aren't gnome/gnopernicus
>   issues, does Evolution have some strange highlightings or such that
>   the screen reader isn't used to?
>   Thanks!
>
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> /Krister
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