Hi Will,
Let me start by saying that WebVisum already works nicely in Firefox on
both Windows and Linux. It may even work, possibly with some effort, on
future versions of Firefox that would be targeted to Mobile devices.
Making it work with Safari would require plenty of resources which we
prefer to dedicate to what we already have in our hands in order to move
that forward as fast as we can. Supporting a totally different browser
is a huge distraction.
We would not want to support two code bases with fixes, enhancements and
feature additions.
I hope you understand.
Marc
will lomas wrote:
cant you make the tool work with safari on mac os x? we could be waiting
ages for firefox to get a move on
On 25 Aug 2008, at 17:11, WebVisum wrote:
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
