email client for sight challenged person

[winwintoo]

I want to make it possible for my elderly mother to read and send web-based email. She has failing eyesight and at 83 years of age is not interested in all the bells and whistles present in most feature rich email clients.

I have tried NeoMail, Squirrelmail, and several others, but they all have too many buttons (and the buttons are too small to be useful)

All I want to do is read the mail file and display it one message at a time and give her a way to reply to messages.

Anyone got any ideas??

Thanks, Margaret

[pyro]

If you're talking making your own, it's going to be a bit of work. I've not personally tried playing around with any of this, as I've not had the need, but you are going to want to look into the imap (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php) functions...

[winwintoo]

Thanks Pyro. I ended up using web2mail and tinyurl to create a short url for Mom to log on and read her mail through web2mail.

By getting rid of the frames on the default web2mail, I managed to wiggle my way directly in to the email list screen. From there she can click on a link to see if she has new mail and she will have to log in - couldn't find a way around that.

I think there's a market for web tools geared to elderly folks, anyone interested??

Margaret

[pyro]

Lol... I've been thinking about playing around with a web mail app, and if I make one, I'll be sure it's accessible... :)