You talking about the major Windows 8 upgrade coming out I take it? Your guess is as good as mine, we'll just have to wait. Think it hits the Microsoft Store in July.
On 31/05/2013, at 12:53 PM, "hank smith, and seeing-eye dog iona" <[email protected]> wrote: > any ideas what features will affect accessibility? > On 5/30/2013 12:21 PM, Dane trethowan wrote: >> 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. 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