Don't know how you'll go with that, I know a lot of users who use Thunderbird but not under Windows 8, holding off the install of Windows 8 until the major upgrade - free of charge to Windows 8 users by the way <smile> - is released, some radical changes are to be made which affect accessibility and appearance.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Friday, 31 May 2013 4:09 AM To: Windows Access; Share Your Enthusiasm! Subject: Re: Thunderbirds are . stop! I'm going to try it under Windows 8 I think, because I need E-Mail for work and I see this as the best option at present now that I am aware of the situation regarding future-proofing and the time taken to get things synchronised. I simply didn't want to spend that time on something which was dead. But now that I know different, I will go ahead with the project as quickly as possible. It will save me the hassle of taking two machines into work all the time if I can accomplish what I need to do on one. Lynne recently subscribed to Office 365 which essentially gives us access to the most up-to-date versions of office, as well as our Office 2010 subscription. I'm also hoping that my grant will pay for a permanent license for Office 2013 which, I believe, NVDA supports. I'm no longer interested in Window-Eyes, as there are simply too many issues with it. I grew very tired also of having to wait 7 or 8 weeks when ordering upgrades because of their stupid system of creating C D's in the US and sending them out to dealers when customers order them. They ship products in bulk which is why the delay. I'm not prepared to go that route any longer. Anyway, I will try Thunderbird shortly, see if I can get that working. I should be able too, in view of the fact that the problems I had last time I tried were most likely caused by Window-Eyes which I was using at the time. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 30 May 2013, at 18:38, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I've kept quiet on this so far but I feel the need to speak up now. > > Chris is more or less right when he talks about Thunderbird no longer being developed, the actual word from the press release some time ago was that development had been "Suspended" but not because of the future of the product but because there were - in the opinion of the developers - nothing more meaningful that could be done to the eMail client so it ill remain available still and - as Chris says - updates - where and if appropriate - will be released at various intervals. > > I'm sure an update to Thunderbird was released in recent times, I'm a regular user of the software and I recall an update downloading not so long ago. > > As far as accessibility for Thunderbird goes? Well it works very nicely with NVDA, reasonably well with JAWS and - as one would expect these days <smile> - not too well with Window-Eyes. > ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/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> --------------------------------------- [email protected] ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/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> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
