Hi Dave,

If you haven't already disabled the preview pane under view/layout, 
(called the message pane) then do so and then press alt + F6 and you 
will be in the tree view of folders, then press tab once to get to the 
list of messages.  Press enter on each individual message to open it and 
control + W to close the message.  Alt + F4 and escape also work to 
close messages, but for some reason, they're not as consistent.  I don't 
know why.

Hope this helps.

On 4/13/2014 10:46 PM, Dave Marthouse wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Interestingly enough I just installed Thunderbird yesterday.  I am
> running Jaws15 and have no problem using the program.
>
> There is one small thing that annoys me.  After selecting a message I'm
> interested in reading in the list view I have to tab a good 7 or 8 or
> more times to get to the message body.  I would love to see some sort of
> configuration change so that I can hit tab once as in Outlook or Outlook
> express to get from the message list to the message body.  Otherwise I
> am rather pleased with Thunderbird.  It was up and running with in 15
> minutes of downloading the file.
>
> I am not running any special scripts with the program.  It worked out of
> the box.
>
>
> Dave Marthouse N2AAM
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