Hmm, I wonder if the problems we're describing are Thunderbird, the 
specific screen readers, or the way they interact. NVDA is my secondary 
screen reader. Though Jaws is doing much better with Thunderbird lately, 
I seem to go through phases where the two do and don't play nice. when 
Jaws and Thunderbird aren't getting along, I use NVDA for email, and I 
don't notice any problems. I know I've successfully edited a forward 
with NVDA in the past, but I haven't tried recently, mostly because I'm 
now used to using the reply work-around.the


As far as minor weirdnesses with Jaws and Thunderbird, I definitely 
observe the issue Duane describes, and I also notice that, after I save 
an attachment via alt+m, h from the message list, Jaws does return focus 
to the list, but it says blank when I use the say line command. I need 
to arrow up or down once. Like Dwane's issue, these are not show 
stoppers, but they are irksome when I forget the work-arounds in the 
middle of a busy email session.


Fortunately, the big show stoppers, like Jaws not reading subject lines 
or Jaws randomly deciding not to read message bodies, have all been 
cleared up.




On 11/4/2016 9:32 PM, Rachel wrote:
> Thanks to Ana, Duane, and David for your responses. Ana's suggestion 
> of turning a reply into a forward works really well, and I'm relieved 
> that I now have a workaround. David, I find it interesting that you're 
> having the same issues using NVDA. Could it be that the way 
> Thunderbird displays headers has changed?  David, if you could, please 
> try editing a forwarded message in Thunderbird with Window-Eyes.  I'll 
> be interested to see what happens with that.
> Rachel
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