Actually, they said Firevox which is technically true, seeing as how
it's a speech extension to Firefox that has the ability to use Mac's
TTS engines. Honestly though it's pretty pathetic compared to just
about everything else, even Firefox under Linux with Orca works better
and that's saying quite a bit at this point. Obviously Safari with
Voiceover blows it out of the water.
I really wish Mozilla could swallow their pride and work with the OS X
accessibility APIs, but they seem determined to have it their way or
no way. They had a blog post on this a while back, and basically
summed it up that if Apple wouldn't open source Voiceover or otherwise
implement the Mozilla access APIs into it they would never provide
access on the Mac, with considerable emphasis on open sourcing
Voiceover. Honestly the whole thing came off kind of childish to me,
and is certainly counterproductive to Mozilla's stated goals of
providing access for everyone.
On Nov 14, 2008, at 19:38, Mike Arrigo wrote:
Another comment that Apple made was that fire fox is accessible,
unless something has changed, this is incorrect.
On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:40 PM, John Panarese wrote:
I agree. I must admit that I was both very surprised and quite
pleased. At least, it seems that A Mac was used and there was much
more thought put into this review.
As for Open Office, I would not say that it is fully accessible,
but it surely is usable on a daily basis if one needed an office
suite. The spreadsheet is surely quite impressive. The word
processor takes some getting used to, but, again, one can use it.
Take Care
John Panarese
On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Slau wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "kaare dehard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
It is certainly a more thoughtful
than the review done in 2005. I don't agree with all of it but
let's give em marks for effort this time round...
I agree. I was a staunch critic of the 2005 review by Jay
Leventhal but I sent him a message thanking him for a far better
evaluation this time around and thanks to Jim Denham for his review.
Slau
