You should take a serious look at NVDA.
They have really come a long way.
There are a series of tutorials on the Blind Geek Zone site.
I think you will be impressed at what this team has accomplished.
73 N2DYN Angelo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: mail programs in windows 7


> Thanks Howard, that's helpful.  I'm using Jaws 11x and am considering
> switching to something else once I get settled on this new machine.  It
> would probably cost me less to switch to system access or something like
> that than to update jaws.  Thanks for the info.  73,  Lou
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: mail programs in windows 7
>
>
>> Windows live mail is built in to 7, and works okay, the ribbon bars are a
>> different layout.  Office 2003 and above will work on windows 7.  I don't
>> know what screen reader you will use, but the versions back a couple of
>> years on most will work under windows 7.
>> Think of ribbon bars, as two parallel menus, each choice has options that
>> you tab through, right and left arrows are used to navigate through the
>> main
>> choices.  Up and down arrows will switch between the two ribbon bars.
>> That's my image of what is going on anyway.  You can import your settings
>> and addresses from outlook express in to windows live mail.  They can 
>> then
>> be exported to files, and imported in to windows live on the 7 machine, 
>> if
>> that's the way you choose to go.