I should add that you may nonetheless be able to use Firefox with the Fire Vox talking browser extension. Unfortunately, the installer for the Fire Vox libraries is Java based, and I don't think VoiceOver supports Java as yet. I could be wrong though.
-- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 7/31/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, he's no longer working on it (he found a job). As far as I > know, no-one has replaced him yet. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > On 7/31/07, Rich Caloggero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Longer answer: > > They are working on it. They need to work on mapping their accessibility API > > to the Macintosh accessibility API. As of last October, they did have > > someone working on this, but I cannot remember his name. > > They take a similar approach under Windows and Linux. The windows > > implementation is fairly complete and stable, but the screen reader vendors > > have not implemented full support for firefox accessibility in their > > products yet, especially with respect to live regions > > Under Linux, the orca folks are busy as we speak making Firefox better under > > orca. Haven't tried it yet though, because still having trouble installing > > linux. Its free (linux that is), but you pay (a lot) in other ways. > > > > > > -- Rich > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > > theblind" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:25 PM > > Subject: Re: Is Mozilla Firefox accessible with VO? > > > > > > It does not work with VoiceOver. Firefox uses its own GUI system. > > > > Greg > > On Jul 31, 2007, at 13:15 , Rafael Bejarano wrote: > > > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > Have any of you tried using Firefox? Is it accessible with VO? > > > > > > Rafael Bejarano > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
