I also went to Marco's presentation at CSUN. Generally it sounds like they are focusing on getting Firefox 3.5 our and he expected the next point rev, 3.6, to be the one with VoiceOver support. Apparently there are rudimentary nightly builds of 3.6 available somewhere. 3.5 is supposed to have a bunch of accessibility stuff in it like synching up with the latest ARIA specs. The nightly builds also working on Microsoft Text Services (expose spell check and various text display attributes to AT) along with voice recognition services in Vista/Win7. There is also HTML5 and the Ubiquity CLI interface. Fenig (sp?) is their FF for Mobile devices which currently is targeted to WindowsMobile and mobile Linux. Android already has TTS but Fenig on Android was non-committal and iPhone wasn't even mentioned. Guess for accessibility iPhone won't get mentioned until Apple has a non-visual navigation solution. The good news is that once the accessibility stuff for VO on FF is worked out we should see another good accessible browser come to the Mac. As was noted by Steve Faulkner on the Paciello Blog, of ARIA's 59 role values, on the Mac FF exposes 0, Opera 14 and Safari 4 Beta 15. Not a lot of joy there. The good news is that on Windows FF currently exposes 49 and so I would expect the Mac version to jump to at least that many once it works at all.
CB E.J. Zufelt wrote: > Good morning, > > Marco Zehe has posted on his blog at http://www.marcozehe.de/ that the > first step in Firefox accessibility for the Mac has been taken this > week. I'm sure that the journey will be a long one, but it is good to > know that efforts are being made to make Firefox accessible to Mac > users of assistive technology. > > Great and exciting work by Mozilla. > > Everett > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
