I think it's not only possible, but likely, if anyone comes forward to do the work as Waara did before. As with any project, often bugs remain unfixed in Firefox for a long time because, although everyone is agreed they should be fixed, no-one puts in the time to fix them. And this is quite a large and complex bug.
On the other hand, I don't think Fire Vox is particularly expensive in terms of hard disk storage. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 8/4/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah thank you for explaining it to me Benjamin > > Do you think it is possible that Firefox will one day be VO usuable > without the need for Firvox? I am not aainst speech enabled programs > like this, but it just seems that VO might be able to do it on its > own so saving space on the hard drive. > > Thanks james > On 3 Aug 2007, at 23:50, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > > Jude's problem with Mozilla Firefox is not the lack of Java Access > > Bridge, but that the nobody has finished exposing Mozilla widgets to > > the Apple Accessibility API that VoiceOver uses to understand > > applications. Here's the relevant bug in the Mozilla bugzilla: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157209 > > > > Unfortunately for Firefox, Håkan Waara, who was working on this, found > > a job and no longer had time to continue. So currently nobody is > > working on it, as far as I know. > > > > On the other hand, there is Fire Vox, as James mentioned, an extension > > that turns Firefox into a talking browser, and that does work on Mac > > OS X. The homepage is: > > > > http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ > > > > In answer to James's question, what Firefox can do that Safari and > > Shiira cannot is essentially a limitless set because, unlike Safari or > > Shiira, Mozilla provides a plugin framework and it has an active > > plugin community: > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/ > > > > In addition, the Gecko engine that underpins Firefox supports web > > technologies that WebKit, the engine underpinning Safari or Shiira, > > does not as yet. These technologies include MathML (a markup language > > for mathematical content) and ARIA (an enhancement to XHTML to make > > Ajax widgets more accessible). > > > > Firefox also has rudimentary support for some basic HTML features that > > Safari and Shiira do not have. For example, Firefox provides some > > access to the longdesc attribute for images; Safari and Shiira do not. > > Again, Firefox provides some access to the cite attribute of > > quotations, Safari and Shiira do not. > > > > -- > > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > > On 8/3/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There is something called Fire Revox. It is as far as I understand > >> it, a speech interfce for Firefox. Can i ask though out of curiosity, > >> does Firefox do something that Safari or Shiira does not? > >> > >> Thanks James > >> On 3 Aug 2007, at 22:15, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> > >>> It may get better for me later this weekend, but for now I > >>> recommend mac users who use voiceover stay with safari. It could > >>> be that needs java access bridge which so far as I know isn't on my > >>> mac yet. When I started firefox up an import wizard came up and I > >>> haven't been able so far to either read it or get beyond it. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > >
