JAWS does not work well with Microsoft Live Mail! Since Outlook Express and
Windows Mail are not available in Windows7, people are forced to switch to
something. FS has scripts for Live Mail in JAWS 10 and 11, but they have
lots of flaws. The JAWS 10 scripts actually work better for me than JAWS
11. I can not even read mail with JAWS 11! I need to switch to JAWS 10
every time I want to read mail. This gets very agravating! The scripts for
JAWS 10 are less annoying and my biggest complaint is that it will not
announce "unread" or indicate when there is an enclosure. FS is very aware
of the problem, do not seem interested in fixing the problems or even
admitting that they have scripts for Live Mail. They seem to think that
everybody should dish out more money for Outlook, since that is what all of
their corporate accounts require.
I am seriously thinking of switching to Thunderbird 3 as well, and I have
more interesting things to do than play around with a mail program. I have
downloaded the program, but have other things to do.
Don Marang
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From: "Bill Gallik" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:11 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] I took the plunge and am Now trying to
gowithThunderbird
I'm completely confused as to why, if folks are experiencing so much
difficulty, they are prone to use browsers and e-mail clients other than
Internet Explorer and Windows Mail or Outlook. I understand the "glamour"
of being able to identify one's self as a non-conformist and hence using
tools other than those provided by Microsoft, but considering the
difficulties I've seen on various lists I wouldn't touch any of these
tools with someone else's screen reader. Obviously, JAWS has been
developed and delivered complete with strong support files to interact
with Internet Explorer and any of the Microsoft e-mail clients. I presume
the same can be said for WindowEyes. So, why not not use what works best
given the framework of needing to use a screen reader?
I guess, that since I was a software developer for so many years, I find
no personal satisfaction in being able to say I am not a conformist. I
just want to use what works the best given my limitations.
If the reason for using the non-Microsoft tools is enhanced security, then
why not take the entire plunge and move to Linux?
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!
----
Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: [email protected]
In the opening paragraphs of "A Christmas Carol" Dickens is overwrought to
express that Jacob Marley is dead:
"Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is
particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself,
to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands
shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit
me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail."
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