[access-uk] Re: Thunderbird accessibility degrading

  • From: Deddajay <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:37:17 +0100

And the moral of the story is: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Not every update to the latest and greatest is needed or even desirable. I'm still on Thunderbird 24, and Clive's on an even earlier version (can't remember which one). Both work perfectly well for us and we see no reason to upgrade to the latest version which just seems to move the menu items around and prevent various customisations from working when they worked before. It may have some more so called security under the bonnet, but if you have up to date anti virus software, regularly run malware scans and just use some common sense about opening dodgy emails and not clicking on links in them, then an older version is no problem. 

Just make sure you have unchecked automatic updates.

Cheers
Deddajay


On 17/08/2014 16:19, Mike Ray wrote:

Hello Mo,

I would love to roll back to 24 if that will fix it.

Perhaps we can do that this week?  I don't want to disturb your Sunday.

Mike

On 17/08/2014 16:17, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:

Hi mike.

If you role back to thunderbird 24 the filters should work fine. You should be 
able to copy across and reimport your thunderbird data to a previous version if 
you want a hand remotely please let me know off list. The filtering dialogue is 
very useable with tb24.

All the best,

Mo.


Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hello,

Number two on my list of things to whinge about today is the apparent
reduction in accessibility on Thunderbird as versions increase.

Because I am moving some of the lists I am subscribed to from BT to
another account I am trying to set up the filters I had for moving list
emails to sub-folders.  But it appears the dialog for that has changed
and it is now unusable with NVDA (that'll please Steve).

Number three is Thunderbird doesn't know how to spell 'whinge'.  And it
says 'THunderbird' is wrong too :)

Does anybody have any recommendations for other email clients?
Microsoft
products excluded.

Mike

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