Okay, thanks to several suggestions on this list, I installed the latest
Thunderbird beta rather than using Orca.
Although I can open and read messages in Thunderbird with Orca, I don't see
how to easily do it.
When I hit enter on a message, I'm put in some kind of shredder app window
and
Using the desktop keyboard layout in Orca, the documentation says that
hitting the NumPad - should toggle into and out of Flat Review mode.
First of all, Orca never announces whether I am in flat review mode or not,
so I never know whether or not I'm actually in this mode.
Also, when I use
One more Thunderbird question.
When running Thunderbird, I got into the ORCA preferences to see if there
were any special ORCA hotkeys for use with Thunderbird. I didn't see any.
It got me to thinking if there was something else I was supposed to install
besides just the beta version of
The actual behavior of flat review appears to differ somewhat from the docs.
First off, pressing any keypad key will move the flat review focus, no matter
what you do with the keypad dash key. Secondly, the keypad dash key appears to
only sync the flat review to the actual focus. So as I am
The navigation keys used in Thunderbird are pretty much the same as those in
Firefox. You can use the P and p keys to move by paragraph, the o and O keys to
move by large object, etc. These bindings should be in the Orca application
preferences. On my system, I press Orca+control+space and go
Hi, I have seen some messages on thunderbird lately. Is it now usable with
orca? The last time I tried it wasn't. I know the beta of thunderbird 3 is
pretty axcessable in windows. I didn't see a linux version of that beta on
portable apps.
Mike.
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The Thunderbird 3.0 beta is quite usable with Orca. I have been using it for
over 6 months now with little trouble. I got it from the Mozilla ppa on
launchpad. Just paste the lines below into a file and copy it into
/etc/apt/sources.list.d. Be sure to replace jaunty with the version of Ubuntu
