[gui-talk] Seeking Webmail accessibility advice

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

I would recommend setting up Gmail for POP3 access, but perhaps using the
"leave mail on server" option, so that you can see and store that mail again
with your desktop PC.  There are several ways to go with this sort of thing.


Although I use EarthLink's web-based e-mail a little with Window-Eyes, I
think that web mail is pretty inefficient with a screen reader, no matter
who provides it.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:19 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] Seeking Webmail accessibility advice
> 
> I now have a laptop to complement my desktop computer, and I'd of course
> love to have email on it.
> 
> Now, the desktop is linked to my ISP's mail server by a POP 3 arrangement
> which I somehow learned how to set up.
> 
> I know there's also IMAP, but for this discussion, let's forget about that
> as a solution. What I'd really like is if I could simply establish a
> regular
> gmail account for both, so it wouldn't interfere in any way with the email
> on my desktop.
> 
> But I've poked around the gmail interface, because that's exactly what my
> ISP uses for there online mail server. And like many Jaws users, I find it
> awfully difficult to navigate and use, whether I put it in HTML mode or
> the
> so-called Regular mode, interface-wise. I have difficulty with either of
> them, and a few different problems from one to the other.
> 
> But maybe gmail has become a little more screen reader friendly, and I
> don't
> know it? As far as I understand, it's at least better than Yahoo mail to
> begin with. Anyone using gmail regularly, and if so in what interface
> mode,
> and can you give me any pointers or even point me to some Jaws directions
> online? That, of course, would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joel
> 
>