Harry,


The way Narrator behaves depends on whether scan mode is on or off. Scan 
mode is Narrator's review mode. If you hear sender, subject line, date, 
etc., each time you press down-arrow while in the Thunderbird message 
list, then scan mode is turned on. To toggle scan mode, press caps lock 
+ space. When scan mode is turned off, you should be able to move from 
one message to the next with the down-arrow key, and you should have no 
problem pressing enter to open a message.


Good luck.


Ciao


On 12/1/2021 2:19 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
> Ana,
>
> Thanks for this info!!!
>
> It's interesting with Narrator. When I'm in the list of emails, when I 
> press enter to open an email, it does not open the email.
>
> When I'm down arrowing through the list of emails, it says column 
> name, column address, column date.
>
> NVDA doesn't do that.
>
> It just lets me go through the list just saying the subject, like it 
> should, so then I press enter on an email to read it.
>
> Any ideas how I can go through the list of emails and open an email 
> and read it, using Narrator?
>
> I'd love to use Narrator for email.
>
> Harry
>
> On 11/21/2021 11:13 PM, Ana G wrote:
>> Harry,
>>
>>
>> The Search box you find when Thunderbird opens can be removed. You 
>> need to go into the View menu (alt+v) to do it. There may also be a 
>> Calendar between you and your messages, so you may want to turn that 
>> off too while you're in the View menu. It's been a while since I did 
>> that, so I don't remember where stuff is exactly. When Thunderbird 
>> updates, you often have to go back into the View menu to mess with 
>> those settings.
>>
>>
>> I don't use Jaws very often nowadays. My experience, over the years, 
>> has been that Jaws and Thunderbird go through periods of not playing 
>> nice together. When one or the other updates, it isn't unusual for 
>> some problem or other to crop up. Thunderbird is working fine with 
>> Narrator and with NVDA. When I was still primarily a Jaws user and we 
>> were in one of our Jaws-and-Thunderbird-are-clashing cycles, I would 
>> just switch screen readers whenever I would launch Thunderbird.
>>
>>
>> Ciao
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/2021 12:42 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>> Using thunderbird 91.3 and I have problems.
>>>
>>> 1. When I start thunderbird, as usual, you hear the beep, and it 
>>> tells me how many messages I received, which is fantastic.
>>>
>>> But then, it gives another beep, and jaws doesn't tell me anything.
>>>
>>> Then, it gives me another beep, and I don't know what's going on, 
>>> and I can't use the keyboard, for seconds at a time.
>>>
>>> Then this stupid search pops up.
>>>
>>> I'll open an email, and the search pops up.
>>>
>>> I wonder if there are toolbars, which I need to get rid of?
>>>
>>> And if there are, how do I do that?
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of this stuff happening?
>>>
>>> Also, when I start thunderbird, the same messages I just deleted, 
>>> come back, so I have to delete them again!
>>>
>>> I am very strongly, considering going back to 58.2, because in that 
>>> version, there are none of these problems.
>>>
>>> This is driving me nuts!
>>>
>>> Harry
>>>
>>>
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