have you tried mutt? its a command line NNTP client. you might have to install Xcode tools and install it from the ports tree (from macports). most, if not all command utilities are fairly accessible with VO.
-Eric On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: > Hi all. > > I am looking for an accessible NNTP usenet client. I was trying four of them, > but none is usable. > > I tried Nemo. It seemed very very promising; the configuration wizard was > fully accessible, but... the table containing the subscribed groups looks > empty to Voice Over. I mean, it can see the table but all rows and columns > are empty for VO. Of course, the control containing the message itself is a > standard HTML content that VO can read with no problem... :-) Menu bar > cannot be accessed by pressing VO+m, but they respond to ctrl+f2. Voice Over > will not read them. :-) > > Ok, uninstalled Nemo, I instal thunderbird. Just for fun. As you already > know, no accessibility at all there. > > Thoth was m third attempt. Another disaster. I was not able to access the > preferences dialog. > > The last usenet client I tried is Unisom. Preferences are accessible and so > are the menus and other pars of the application. But the overall > accessibility is less then pore. Some controls do respond to VO+space, others > need the simulated mouse click, and some are triggered only by a physical > mouse click. The message list is not easy to find, and the threaded view is > not a list or a table but some kind of text area... I am not sure... :-) > > Any help? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
