When I raised this issue sometime back, I was told that mozilla did not want to invest or did not have the money to do it and I have heard something to the effect that apple would not answer their questions.
I don't know what their specific issues with apple were/are. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Elliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:14 PM Subject: Re: Making Firefox and WebVisum accessible with VoiceOver yes it would. i don't want to use a third party app to make firefox accessible. i hope this can be done. On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Orin wrote: > Yeah, but it really would be nice to have Firefox accessible out of > the box. Besides, firevox or whatever is flakey and you can't always > get what you want. > On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:37 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Mark, >> >> I appreciate your efforts and those of the mozilla team in >> attempting to >> provide voiceover users with choices. >> >> Without going into a long drawn out explanation of how to arrive at >> the >> conclusions we seek, I would point you to the folk who will listen >> and who >> can make this happen. >> >> please write: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with full details, refer to the bugs that are already referenced >> and any >> others you come across that are rellevent to the apple >> accessibility apis. >> >> When there is something we can pound on, I'd appreciate knowing >> about and >> will certainly give it a go. Also, You may know that there is a >> firefox >> extention (fire vox) which works with the apple voices and makes >> firefox >> accessible to us. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "WebVisum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:11 PM >> Subject: Making Firefox and WebVisum accessible with VoiceOver >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm one of the developers of WebVisum, a Firefox extension that >> allows >> blind web surfers to share web page accessibility repairs across the >> web, do OCR on images and solve CAPTCHAs. Check it out at >> http://www.webvisum.com/ >> >> This tool was developed for Firefox because the extensibility >> mechanism >> was easy for us to use, and because of the openness of the platform >> accessibility solution, which is beneficial to our users and >> affords us >> maximum future flexibility. >> >> Recently I've really been pushing the Mozilla accessibility team to >> develop VoiceOver compatibility. We'd like VoiceOver users to be >> able to >> take advantage of WebVisum. I'm very persistent because we do get >> many >> requests from VoiceOver users, and because I think Mac is important. >> >> The team was sympathetic, and said they've been trying to do this >> since >> 2006, but stopped because of unresolved problems that they couldn't >> get >> help with. >> >> Aaron Leventhal (the Firefox accessibility lead) also wants to make >> Firefox accessible on OS X so he wrote the following article: >> http://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/firefox-and-os-xs-voiceover-reading-the-magic-8-ball/ >> >> The article is worth a read. I'd like to hear people's opinions on >> the >> options going forward. >> >> Thanks! >> Marc Dohnal >> >> >> >> > >
