Firefox like any other application can be made to be accessible just like 
any other application.  I'm not sayig that all of it will be accessible, but 
they don't have anything close.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by 
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover:


On 28/12/08 15:03, David Poehlman wrote:
>  From what i have been able to gather, nothing needs to be done but that
> mozilla needs to follow the apple accessibility api.

Gather from where? Your statement assumes following the Apple
Accessibility API is straightforward for web content and functionality
that hasn't been introduced to WebKit yet, that the Apple Accessibility
API has everything required, and that VoiceOver is bugfree.

You might want to review the blocker bugs for VoiceOver support linked
from Aaron's bug post.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility_Tasks#Details_about_VoiceOver_and_OS_X_issues

"Ignores notifications" in particular sounds like a direct blocker for
Live Regions.

Note the mention of acknowledged but unfixed bugs in VoiceOver.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342989 is the rollup ticket.

Obviously, anyone who reckons they can fix these problems can offer to
contribute code.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis




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