Hi Howard,

Unless you have an office suite included in your system, Windows 7 has 
no built in mail program.  You can download the free Windows Live Mail, 
but it does not come by default.

On 5/21/2013 12:56 PM, Howard Kaufman wrote:
> 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.
>