Hi folks! So Window-Eyes 7.5.2 was released a few days ago and one of the many things mentioned about the new release was long awaited fixes to allow the software to be used with the Thunderbird email client, yep you heard right.
When I first started using the new version of WE with Thunderbird I thought some progress had ben made but as I continued to work it seemed to me that if anything Window-Eyes had gone backwards, I won't go into all the details of additional problems I discovered on list but I will say it was a great relief to have NVDA on hand, the old tried and true Screen Reader that some folks hold up for ridicule because its free still does the job of accessibility with Thunderbird near to flawlessly. So what have other people been saying about Window-Eyes and Thunderbird? Much the same as I have. Someone - too their credit - has written a "TB Enhanced" app for WE which is supposed to improve accessibility to Thunderbird with Window-Eyes but really, what on earth is going on here. Thunderbird has accessibility built-in and I know for a fact that the developers of Thunderbird have been bending over backwards to ensure that the software is accessible. Every other Windows Screen Reading package I know of except Window-Eyes works with Thunderbird because Thunderbird doesn't use any special means of displaying text, very strange. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
