Hi: I had trouble with JAWS giving me no speech input when tabbing through the fields. I also had to remember to turn off the virtual cursor when writing an email. things may have changed since I used tBird, but I'm letting you know my experiences with it. I was not even aware that there were scripts out there for it, so perhaps it would work better now. I agree that Outlook 2007 is a pain, I don't really like it, but that's what I'm stuck with if I don't use thunderbird. sometimes it is slow, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for the delays. It must be a memory hog like you say.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Torpey Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Using Thunderbird with JAWS Hi, I've been getting really frustrated using Outlook 2007 with JAWS 10. The program slows down my computer a lot, produces error messages when I close it, and gobbles up lots of memory. Anyway, this led me to check out Mozzilla Thunderbird with JAWS. I noticed that there weren't any scripts written for Thunderbird, but the program seems to be reasonably accessible anyway. I'm wondering if other folks are using Thunderbird with JAWS and what kind of success and/or problems people are experiencing before I totally make the switch (or not). Some things I noticed right off: - The Tool bars aren't very accessible (although there are menu pull-downs for most of these functions). - Although I can arrow down the list of mail folders, this list doesn't seem to be navigable by first letter. Thus, one needs to arrow than the list rather than navigate by first letter. This is a pain if there are lots of folders. - Attachments aren't readily sensed by JAWS, although one can use the JAWS cursor or the menu pull-downs to see if there are any attachments, but one needs to look (and expect attachments). Some nice things are: - The program is very responsive, even when there are lots of mail items in one folder. - Using JAWS, certain messages can't be read without performing several steps to open up the message in a web browser. These messages open up and are readable just like any other message in Thunderbird. Anyway, I'm interested to know what others are finding and how frustrated folks may be with Outlook 2007. I've seen my memory usage with Outlook 2007 go from 60,000 kb when first opening Outlook to over 500,000 kb if Outlook 2007 is left open for about a day. Not good, Microsoft! Thanks. n Pete Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [email protected] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [email protected] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [email protected] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [email protected] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [email protected] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [email protected]
