I like to use the keyboard exclusively for reading my mail. I find myself fighting with evolution to get the focus in the correct place. The difficulty is that key presses are mapped differently for the account list, the message list and the message widgets. I am forced to use the mouse for all actions even paging through the message or use tab repeatedly and hunt for the focused widget. If this is difficult for sighted person. It has to be painful for a person using accessibility to read mail. A possible solution would be to have universally mapped keys. They always do the same thing despite the focus. Or have accelerators to get to the account list, message list and message widgets directly.
f6 lets you switch between the panes, perhaps this helps a little bit
Please see http://www.go-evolution.org/Shortcut_Keys_Review for details, and some subpages for keyboard navigation. It's a bit older page, but still applies. It this fine for you?
Reporter, is this issue still relevant with the latest upgrade to your distribution? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
Thanks, Andre. F6 does help out a lot. Milan, now that I now that page exists, I think keyboard navigation is much more reasonable. I would say that this inforamtion resolves my problem.
Thanks for the update. Resolving this as NOTABUG since there were no changes.