Unfortunately, Thunderbird, like Firefox offers no audible alert to let you
know that you have landed on a web page that contains RSS feeds. Only IE
has this feature. So again, it is impossible for a blind user to detect
feeds in Firefox or Thunderbird without sighted assistance. And as with
Firefox, there is no way to import your feeds list into Thunderbird from IE.
However, you may be able to add feeds manually in Thunderbird by copying and
pasting the URl for each of your IE feeds into the appropriate field of the
RSS Subscription dialog of Thunderbird. You just won't be able to detect web
pages that contain RSS feeds unless you use IE.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] accessibleRSS options for firefox
This is why I had interest in thunderbird email client because it says it
can put RSS feeds into an email type version and it has another means of
allowing you to access RSS. It might be worth checking into. I just
couldn't seem to make it work with my hotmail account because of the fact
I couldn't get the "middle man" program to operate. If you have an email
account through some other server aside from hotmail, though, you
shouldn't need to bother with any middle man program.
Kate> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:39:51 -0500> From:
[email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re:
[Blind-Computing] accessibleRSS options for firefox> > > RSS feeds in
Firefox are totally inaccessible with JAWS. Unlike IE, firefox > provides
no audible alert when you encounter a web page with RSS feeds. You >
cannot assign a Windows sound scheme to the "feed discovered" event in >
Firefox; you can only do so for IE, for obvious reasons. And JAWS does not
> announce "RSS Feed" as it does in IE. So there is no way to bookmark
these > pages without sighted assistance. There is also no way to import
your list > of feeds into Firefox from IE. So if you are a heavy user of
RSS feeds, > you'd better stick with IE, and consider using Firefox only
for its Webvisum > feature.> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From:
"aiden gardiner" <[email protected]>> To:
<[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:15
PM> Subject:
[Blind-Computing] accessibleRSS options for firefox> > > > Hi all,> >> >
I'm thinking of switching completely over to firefox for all internet > >
serfing over the next few weeks. The only problem i've got with firefox is
> > that I can't figure out how the live bookmarks work as it compares to
RSS > > feeds in IE. Could someone please explain how the reading of RSS
feeds can > > be done with a screen reader in firefox?> >> > Aiden> >
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