Re: Geary accessibility

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Peter.
Did you try sylpheed?

I didn't have time to play with it, but seems that there is much 
accessibility present.

There is a package in arch called sylpheed.
Thanks.

On 06/26/2014 12:10 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been using Thunderbird for most of my emailing needs for some 8
> years now.
> However as recently I have noticed there are some accessibility and
> performance related issues with its current version on linux.
> So I have took geary for a test today.
> I like the fact geary is verry simple, has just the basic feature set
> however it also has severe accessibility related issues.
> The table listing all the messages can't be read with orca. Luckily
> enough it's navigable using keyboard.
> There is no way on how to enable caret browsing within the message
> preview nor the message window when viewing message.
> Email composition window is not accessible to be usefull. Fields such as
> to, cc, bcc and subjects are siple edit fields which are working fine
> however message input area can't be navigated with orca.
>
> I am posting all this maybe someone will like the idea about having this
> email client accessible and perhaps we can make it work fine in order to
> make some users happy so we will be able to get a working graphical and
> accessible email client on the desktop while using linux.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>
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