Well I think the elephant in the room here is WAI-ARIA support for accessible DHTML (i.e. accessible Web2.0 applications). Last I checked this work is being done for WebKit by Apple engineers, and a Google engineer. Although the Firefox accessibility hackers have trail blazed this work and even provided a helpful implementor's guide [1], it is still a significant effort indeed.
Other that that, I think over the past year work was done to move some of Safari's (non-ARIA) accessibility into a platform agnostic architecture. I think Alp then put in the GNOME atk bindings. I know WebKit is fashionable these days, but I don't think we should be too hasty here. If we going to switch let's do it for the right reasons. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ARIA_User_Agent_Implementors_Guide cheers, David Willie Walker wrote: > For me, one of the most important problems we face with WebKit is its > lack of accessibility support right now. I have a great fear that Alp > may have grossly underestimated the scope of the work. I have some > confidence, however, that the WebKit folks who were at GNOME Boston > should be able to do a decent analysis of what it will take to add it. > > I so wish I wrote down all the names of the WebKit folks that were at > GNOME Boston. I'd like to follow up to see how their exploration is > coming along. > > Will > > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:48 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > >> Frederic Peters wrote: >> >>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2008-August/msg00001.html >>> >>> + WebKit/GTK+ (external dependency): >>> - lots of community support >>> - accessibility support might not be good enough (no reply from >>> WebKit/GTK+ people) >>> - epiphany will still use Gecko for 2.24 >>> - yelp is still using Gecko at the moment (there's a WebKit branch) >>> - devhelp trunk is WebKit-only >>> - evolution people intend to use WebKit in 2.26 >>> - we'd prefer to avoid depending on both Gecko and WebKit at the same >>> time >>> => rejected for 2.24, but we'll propose a general switch for 2.26 >>> >> Ah, thanks. I'll keep hacking away in trunk and hope we can ship that >> for 2.26 then (and fall back to the old branch again if not). >> >> /Richard >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
