I think that FF (or any other browser) still needs to communicate what's
going on to an accessibility API. For Windows there is MSAA and for
Linux there is IAccessible2 while Apple has their API. So I suspect that
at the moment they focused on getting it to talk to MSAA being the
largest user base. As an Open Source project anyone could add another
API but nobody has yet.
CB
Cara Quinn wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a point of confusion for most.
I'm not sure there are any other 'accessibility' features in the
Windows ver of FF, which are different from the Mac ver. The Windows
screen readers were updated to work with FireFox, not the other way
'round.
Yes there was a third party project a while back before FF on
Windows could work effectively with JFW or WE, but it took a screen
reader update to really make it what it is today.
Smiles,
CQ :)
On Jun 18, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
That's really a shame, especially considering all the accessibility
features built in to the windows version.
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So FF hit its record with about 8M downloads in 24 hours. I
downloaded a copy but it's totally inaccessible. I can get to the
window chrome and the pull-down menus, but that's it. The whole
content area does not exist as far as VO is concerned.
CB
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