Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

Karen

Karen,

I’d try thunderbird.. It works well with Jaws. There’s also the built-in mail app too, but I think Thunderbird is more customizable.  

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

Karen

Thanks. I’ll take a look at it. Has anyone used Evolution?

 

This is me not wanting to spend $20 a year just for a mail program.

 

Karen

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 2:35 PM
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Karen,

 

I’d try thunderbird.. It works well with Jaws. There’s also the built-in mail app too, but I think Thunderbird is more customizable.  

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Karen Reynolds
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 12:25 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: mail programs that are accessible other than Office

 

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

 

Karen

 

I'd spend $20 for accessibility, but not any amount for Office.  Thunderbird is pretty good, but it's about to get a rebuild, and that worries me.

Maria Campbell

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Thanks. I’ll take a look at it. Has anyone used Evolution?

 

This is me not wanting to spend $20 a year just for a mail program.

 

Karen

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 2:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: mail programs that are accessible other than Office

 

Karen,

 

I’d try thunderbird.. It works well with Jaws. There’s also the built-in mail app too, but I think Thunderbird is more customizable.  

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Karen Reynolds
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 12:25 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: mail programs that are accessible other than Office

 

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

 

Karen

 

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 03:14 PM, Karen Reynolds wrote:

Paying for a program or suite over and over year after year is crazy to me.

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At $70/year for M365 Personal (which includes the entire Office suite) and $99.00 per year for M365 Family, which allows up to 6 people to install the full Office suite, both of which allow each individual user to install on up to 5 devices, it's an absolute bargain, and particularly if you can get several friends and go in together on the M365 Family.

The full version of Office 2021 with all the programs that come with M365 is around $500.  It takes a long time at $99/year if 6 people are in on the deal for anyone to come near to $500, and you are getting constantly updated sofware and for Office that's often a very big deal. 

I currently have Office 2016, but I'll be rounding up a few friends over the next couple of years so we can all go in on M365 family once all of the year numbered versions go out of support.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

It’s not lack of contact with the world off campus that leads to the liberal views common in academia — it’s being trained to think critically and practicing this craft daily as we look at the world around us that makes us the libs conservatives so dislike.

     ~ Eliot A. Brenowitz, Seattle; New York Times, Letters, Tales of Town and Gown: Is the Campus Isolated?, August 20, 2022

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?
Karen

Thunderbird version 91 and earlier.

Gene...


On 2/19/2023 2:24 PM, Karen Reynolds wrote:

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

Karen

Hi Karen, just I used Evolution years ago when it was free... or atleast a free version then.  But it was very very inaccessible.

Greets!

Thanks. I’ll take a look at it. Has anyone used Evolution?

 

This is me not wanting to spend $20 a year just for a mail program.

 

Karen

 

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 2:35 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: mail programs that are accessible other than Office

 

Karen,

 

I’d try thunderbird.. It works well with Jaws. There’s also the built-in mail app too, but I think Thunderbird is more customizable.  

 

From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Karen Reynolds
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 12:25 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: mail programs that are accessible other than Office

 

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is accessible other than Outlook?

 

Karen

 

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Salu2, Kari

Thunderbird version 91 and earlier.

Gene...


On 2/19/2023 2:24 PM, Karen Reynolds wrote:

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is
accessible other than Outlook?

Karen

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 07:56 AM, Chris Hill wrote:

I am running Thunderbird 102.8 with no issues.

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No surprise there.  There was a brief period when the initial jump to the one-hundred series release of Thunderbird broke a couple of things in regard to accessibility.  This very often happens whether it's because the software developers did something that the screen reader developers were not made aware of in advance, or because the screen reader developers are either behind schedule or did not include a fix for something they were made aware was changing.

In any case, the latest Thunderbird as of this writing is version 102.8 and it remains accessible.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)  

It’s not lack of contact with the world off campus that leads to the liberal views common in academia — it’s being trained to think critically and practicing this craft daily as we look at the world around us that makes us the libs conservatives so dislike.

     ~ Eliot A. Brenowitz, Seattle; New York Times, Letters, Tales of Town and Gown: Is the Campus Isolated?, August 20, 2022

Thunderbird version 91 and earlier.

Gene...


On 2/19/2023 2:24 PM, Karen Reynolds wrote:

Does anyone know of an email program that works well with Jaws and is
accessible other than Outlook?

Karen

This will probably make me about as popular as they say as ants at a picnic, but here it is anyway.  I tried using Gmail as a email provider, as well as thunderbird. I always end up coming back to outlook.