I recently tried Geary, Sylpheed, Claws-mail, Balsa and Evolution. All have various issues that make them nearly unusable with Orca. Balsa is one of the best other than Thunderbird, but it's hard to read a message once it's open. The message shows up in a read-only textbox, but the arrow keys don't work. Everything else works as expected, although the message list could be just a little less verbose.
Regarding Geary, I had many of the same problems as described by the OP. Sylpheed still has an unreadable message list, but I am able to compose a message, although coming from Thunderbird, that shift+control+e keyboard shortcut to send a message is a bit counterintuitive, as I'm used to pressing control+enter to send the composed message. I also can't open a message in Sylpheed. I like opening messages in their own windows/tabs, but Sylpheed makes this impossible, or nearly so. Once I did find a message, I was only able to read portions of it from something like a preview pane, and couldn't get it into a separate window or tab. Claws-mail worked, or didn't work, in much the same ways as Sylpheed. The unreadable message list is also still a problem in the latest stable version of Evolution, 3.12.3 as of this post. I must wonder just how hard it could be to render a message list that can be read by Orca. If it's anything like what I was seeing in some of the MATE code that had to be done to create accessible objects and make them speak, I can certainly understand how easy it can be to get it wrong, as it appears that nearly everything has to be done twice, i.e. the object has to be created, and then a second accessible object has to be created in order to speak the first object. That is unless I somehow misread the code. I'm not all that familiar with how gtk code is supposed to look, so I could be way off about that part. For now, the best solution I've found for reading mail is Thunderbird nightly builds. They are far more usable than any other graphical client, including the stable Thunderbird builds. They fixed the problem where the wrong message was being spoken once a message was deleted from the list, so the entire experience with Thunderbird nightly is much more smooth. At this point, I would recommend pulling down a nightly build of Thunderbird, as it's the best thing going for now, at least until some of the issues with other clients are fixed. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
