Hi: It sounds like its not a "perfect replacement" for anything at this stage. Kevin Huber
On 9/9/16, bj colt via Talk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/huber.kevin7%40gmail.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 > _______________________________________________ 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
