[Nfbmo] Best email system for screen readers

[Gary Horchem]

I use Outlook 2007 and Novell Goupwise 8 client I run my own mail  
server.

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On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:17 PM, "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>  
wrote:

> Hi Dan. I would suggest Microsoft Outlook is a good alternative. If  
> you happen to have the office suite, it is part of that. If not,  
> there is always Windows mail which I assume, for Vista users, is  
> much like Outlook express.
>
> I would like to know more about Angelina the gorilla who needs  
> adopting and lives only on such sustenance as she can get from her  
> toenails.
>
> Gary
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <danflasar at aol.com>
> To: <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>; <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:42 PM
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Best email system for screen readers
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>     In accordance with the Law of the Inevitability of Behavioral  
>> Change ("People will continue to do what they are doing until it is  
>> more painful to continue than it is to change")
>> I have finally decided that AOL is simply too painful to continue  
>> to subject myself to it's intrusive commercialism than it is to  
>> learn something new.
>>    What do y'all find to be the best email program, client, etc.?   
>> I have a high speed DSL, a reasonably powerful processor,  
>> substantial memory and plenty of disk space.
>>    I use JAWS.
>> Features I want:
>> 1.  No huge all-inclusive environment - AOL takes up a huge amount  
>> of memory, space and crashes VISTA.
>> 2.  Ability to perform the same function on groups of messages  
>> (delete, keep as new, move to folder, etc.)  This can be done in  
>> AOL but it takes forever.  Worse, if I accidentally click or hit  
>> enter on any part of any email, the post opens up and all the  
>> checkboxes are cleared - ya gotta start all over again.
>> 3.   Ability to easily reply and forward messages without JAWS  
>> going otu of forms mode.
>> 4.   Hopefully there are no monotonous notices that a housewife  
>> lost 30 pounds by eating nothing but her toenails eppearing as an  
>> entry in the list of functions such
>> as New Mail, Old Mail, IMs, Sent, Deleted Mail, Dieting Houswife,  
>> Contacts, Brad and Angelina adopt a gorilla, Calendar, Folders and  
>> Teeth sandblasting toothpaste.
>> 5.  I already have a yahoo account, a g-mail account and several  
>> accounts from my cable company (Charter) - anybody prefer one of  
>> them?
>> 6.  If anyone knows of a good source for learning about  
>> accessibility of email systems, that would be helpful.
>>
>>      I will appreciate any and all suggestions - other than those  
>> who tell me where I can shove my email - unless they're really funny.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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