Hi list, Below is the responce I recieved from Customer support of oe2. I think they are saying it will take a long, long, time for it to be made accessible for us.
We are aware that OE Classic has issues with screen-readers for certain controls. To avoid technical explanation, we are aware that these controls need a Accessible Name which is something what is built into Windows (more recent versions such as Windows Vista or more recent) but unfortunately, they are fairly recent and are not implemented to the level of all Windows controls which OE Classic uses. So we have to add support for this name in controls - there are a few methods to do this and we examined them for a while. For now, this is in To-Do list. As we are fairly small team, it will take a while (possibly even a good while) before we start addressing these issues. We have been testing it with NVDA and we found that some controls behave really poorly, while others behaved surprisingly well (mostly buttons and checkboxes). I have added you to the notification list so when we make more progress toward that goal I will notify you - but it will be a while before that happens. best regards, Zvonko Tesic --------------------------------- A perfect replacement for Outlook Express and Windows (Live) Mail: www.oeclassic.com yEnc and multipart decoder for Outlook Express newsgroups at: www.ydecode.com Avoid viruses, spam and learn all Outlook Express secrets at: www.outlookexpresstips.com --------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: bj colt Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: accessibility [OEC VERSION] 2.51 (2016-07-20) [ REGISTERED] No [ WINDOWS] 7 / Server 2008 R2 Dear Customer Service, I am a blind person, using a screen reading program called window-eyes. I downloaded oe2 and found that the program lacked accessibility for my program. The options menu would not read with the tab or shift tab keys. ~The focus didn't go to the next email when the email highlighted was deleted. The folder view was only accessible using the shift tab stroke. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
