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From: Marc Grossman
Date: Sep 18, 2007 1:00PM

As a JAWS user, I can say that I have used G mail in the HTML mode and I
found it to be fairly accessible but I did not enjoy its user interface.
Particularly, the concept of having the reply fields located on the same
page and trying to follow a particular "conversation." As with all web
based applications, each user is going to have its preference when it
comes to navigation. For example, Google arranging its search results
by headings and Yahoo using lists. I don't like navigating in G mail
with the keyboard commands.

Some of the people have mentioned using Outlook or Outlook Express to
access G mail as a Pop account, in which case I am not sure what benefit
G mail offers over its rivals.

I believe that Google has not yet made all of its calendar functions
accessible to screen reading software but it has been a while since I
checked.