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For this month's Office Hours, we're talking to members of our Design Team about how we're assessing and improving Accessibility in Thunderbird. We'd love to bring them your questions! Please leave them in a comment to this post and we'll do our best to answer as many as we can in the recording and blog post!

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Angela Scholder

Well, please give us a global setting to set or disable threaded view and the default colums for all mailboxes configured.
But, allow for local changes per mailbox.

There is now one setting, which I would need to look up, which enforces a global setting without allowing for one or more mailboxes to have a different setting.

The current default of threaded view, which returns if a mailbox for whatever reason is reloaded, is just utterly annoying.

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Paweł Masarczyk

@J3317 @Clio09 Any plans to make the calendaring experience enjoyable with a screen reader when handling a dozen Caldav calendars? Last time I tried, I actually crashed the whole thing by the sheer load of appointments. Also had to tab constantly many times between the date picker and the list of events which would filter when I happened to come across an event that repeated on other days so that actually it would start displaying all of the events on the day of the first occurence. It's difficult to find a FOSS alternative to the classic Outlook under Windows.
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Tobias Frech

Clearly the number one issue why Thunderbird "breaks" for many of my clients is, if they accidently click on a column header and the sorting of the messages is changed. "My messages are gone" is what I then hear all the time. It would be wonderful if the sorting of the messages could be locked and not changed through such an easy operation which often is invoked accidentally.
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Jason J.G. White

A consistent cause of dissatisfaction among screen reader users posting in online fora (although other keyboard-only users are affected too) is that the list of mail folders in Thunderbird can't be navigated by typing the initial letters of the desired folder name when the folder list has focus. Other mail clients (e.g., Apple, Microsoft) have long supported such a feature. Having to use up/down arrow keys to navigate through the folder list is extremely inefficient. The alternative is to install an extension that allows the folder name to be typed, but the extensions aren't necessarily kept up to date in a timely fashion.
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David Goldfield

I work for a company which develops a Raspberry Pi-based computer made specifically for blind consumers. www.blazietech.com
Thunderbird is installed on this device. Many of our users are not tech-savvy and just want a simple email client. I'd love to have easy methods for removing some of the clutter with the goal of having a UI with fewer controls. Currently, users often have to press the tab key many times just to move to the list of messages in their inbox. For some users, all they really want is the message list and the list of folders, with the menu bar, of course, a bit like what we once had with Outlook Express.
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Pratik Patel

can you focus on making the search interface more accessible? For example, I can search for keywords without a problem. It's the results navigation that's a problem.It's extremely difficult to navigate through the original results using NVDA on Windows. It takes opening the results in a new tab option to truly get to the search results. Getting to that option, however, is another problem.
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