[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Steve Litt via Alpine-info]

Karen Lewellen said on Mon, 27 May 2024 11:25:23 -0400 (EDT)


>How would you do this in DOS?


If by DOS you mean 1980's 1990's MS-DOS or PC-DOS, I haven't a clue.
1985-1996 I was a DOS expert, but haven't used it this century and have
forgotten it all. Karen, I thought you were using Linux.

If you had been using Linux, then what I described, once set up, would
have probably been completely accessible using a screen reader.

[snip]


>Storing more than 8 gig of gmail  mail locally keeping it in

>context..in DOS, will be an interesting 

>thing  for Steve to answer. 


Yes it would. If I remember correctly, DOS can't handle hard disks more
than 2 gig.


>Minus he pay someone whose body works 

>differently suggestion of course.


True enough, but how much are you going to pay, year after year, for
somebody whose body works differently to keep up with gmail's summary
and arbitrary and frankly useless changes?

Karen, I know very little about you or your situation, other than you
recently became blind. I don't know if you have any other physical
disadvantages, or how technical you are, or what you use email and the
computer for, or what operating system(s) you use or have used before.
I have even less information about the person whom the original poster
(OP) inquired for. My one and only contribution, or perhaps
discontribution, to this discussion is that Gmail is frustrating and
difficult to work with, and for a normally sighted (I'm about 20/40
with glasses) Linux user there are immensely better alternatives that
may or may not be adaptable to people who are blind.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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