Thanks for the update. I really like Safari, but I think it would be great if I could use Firefox with VO.
Alena Blog: http://blind-gal.blogspot.com On Mar 23, 1:58 pm, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
