Been playing a bit around, and thought to just share one tiny experience with you all.
A good while ago, Thunderbird had an update, which included some Calendar functionality. If you were in the list of mails, and started to tab your way on the screen, you ended up with a load of "empty spots". That is, you press the tab-key, and WinEyes reports silence. Going to the View-menu, by Alt-V, you could see an entry named Calendar, usually reported to be grayed out, so you could not really do much about it. Further, you had an entry named "today", and even when you enter this submenu, and make sure it is turned off, it still seems to be in your way somehow, on the main screen. A day or two ago, I decided to explore the features of plugins and extensions for Thunderbird; which in effect, is much what Apps have been for WinEyes. They can extend, or expand the functionality of the program. Or, they could get very much in our way. Smile. I realized, that Thunderbird - by its own mind - have decided to install such a thing on my computer. Likely, this is something that automatically comes bundled with newer versions of the software, and thereby gets installed without the user's agreeing through the upgrade process. Happily, this kind of extra blah-blah can be removed, and I will in short terms show you how. 1. In the main screen of Thunderbird, hit Alt-T, to get to the Tools menu. 2. Arrow down a couple of times, till you get to the AddOn manager, and hit Enter. 3. You end up in a screen, holding a couple of links. Tab once or twice, to land on one of them. Turn off Browse Mode, with Ctrl-Shift-A. 4. The screen has several tabs. To move around between them, maybe the best way is to tab your way around the screen, til you land on the tab-header line, where you can use your arrows, to choose the desired one. 5. What you are looking for now, is the extension section of the screen. Once you have focused that one, press the tab key till you land on the list of installed extensions. 6. You are specially interested in an extension named "Lightening". Arrow your way down the list, till you have focused that one. 7. You've got two choices here. Either tab till you land on REMOVE, or hit the App-key (Shift-F10), and arrow till you get to REMOVE; then hit Enter. 8. You will hear the screen reader telling you that the AddOn will be removed upon restart. So, Hit Ctrl-F4, to make sure to close the AddOn Manager. 9. Close Thunderbird altogether, by hitting Alt-F4, and then upon waiting for a scond or two, restart your Email program. When restarted, you will find that Thunderbird's main screen, will behave a little more like in the "old days". Going to the View menu, both the "Today" and "Calendar" entries, will have disappeared altogether. And if you use your Tab-key in the main screen, you will no longer meet any silent spots. At least one issue has been removed from your planet. Smile. Now, if we only could have founde a way of setting up Thunderbird in such a way that it will let us edit our outgoing messages, and specially so our replying to a message, we could actually have seen Thunderbird again becoming a fully accessible piece of software; even for WinEyes users. Not sure if such a tweak is possible, but my guess is that a theme, or some adjustment in the very settings of the software will be a couple of places to look. If anyone have ideas, please share. Hope this might help some of you. _______________________________________________ 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
