no browser can support VoiceOver with Flash. That will not happen  
until Adobe fixes Flash for VoiceOver something Adobe has publicly  
indicated it has no interest in doing.


Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101
Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia

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On 01/11/2009, at 3:43 PM, william lomas wrote:

>
> Can we access flash then in opera?
> No news on firefox yet i tried the 3.6 beta 1 just released and no luc
>
> On 29 Oct 2009, at 17:38, Chris Blouch wrote:
>
>>
>> The page I played with was mostly content which I was able to  
>> navigate
>> around and read. Just tried a popup and was unable to figure out what
>> was in it or what I had picked. Here is the test page I tried:
>>
>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/combocode.html
>>
>> Inaccessible popups appears to be an old problem. Josh noted this in
>> his
>> blog back in 2008:
>>
>> http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/06/12/opera-browser-released-with-voiceover-support/
>>
>> Apparently there has been no progress on this front in over a year.
>>
>> CB
>>
>> Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> Did you ever manage to manipulate combo boxes and popup buttons
>>> with Opera? I can't move them so i can't change styles and the like.
>>> /Krister
>>>
>>>
>>> On, at  [GMT]                  (which was 15:10 where I live) you
>>> wrote::
>>> CB> Opera is also fairly accessible. I don't use it all that often  
>>> so
>>> CB> maybe it has some snags but the little bit I played around with
>>> it
>>> CB> I was able to navigate the web page with VO just fine.
>>>
>>> CB> http://www.opera.com/download/
>>>
>>> CB> CB
>>>
>>> CB> a radix wrote:
>>> CB> Hello, I have the fastest 15 inch macbook pro currently
>>> available and still
>>> CB> find safari kind of sluggish (especially with just braille). I
>>> will try icab
>>> CB> this weekend to see how it works. I like that it is from Europe.
>>> CB> Greetings, Anouk,
>>> CB> ----- Original Message -----
>>> CB> From: "Nicolai Svendsen" <[email protected]>
>>> CB> To: <[email protected]>
>>> CB> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:01 AM
>>> CB> Subject: Re: browser alternativesRe: very painfully slow safari
>>>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>> CB> Hi,
>>>
>>> CB> Hmm, experiences with Safari obviously vary. I, myself have an
>>> CB> extremely fast experience with it, and it's not sluggish at
>>> all. I'd
>>> CB> like to try Firefox once their promise for accessibility is
>>> out, but
>>> CB> I'm perfectly happy with Safari. Not to mention trying Google
>>> Chrome.
>>>
>>> CB> Regards,
>>> CB> Nic
>>> CB> Skype: Kvalme
>>> CB> MSN Messenger: [email protected]
>>> CB> AIM: cincinster
>>> CB> yahoo Messenger: cin368
>>> CB> Facebook Profile
>>> CB> My Twitter
>>>
>>> CB> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:50 AM, a radix wrote:
>>>
>>> CB>
>>> CB> Hello, Thanks ever so much for pointing out an alternative
>>> browser for
>>> CB> safari. I did not even think for one moment htat ther ewould be
>>> an
>>> CB> accessible alternative browser for the mac since I think
>>> firefox at
>>> CB> least is
>>> CB> not accessible which would seem to be the only other main
>>> CB> alternative there
>>> CB> is. I myself too find safari to be rather sluggish and slow and
>>> this
>>> CB> is on a
>>> CB> VERY fast laptop.
>>> CB> Are there any other accessible browser alternatives for the mac?
>>> CB> Greetings, Anouk,
>>> CB> ----- Original Message -----
>>> CB> From: "christos hux" <[email protected]>
>>> CB> To: <[email protected]>
>>> CB> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:22 AM
>>> CB> Subject: very painfully slow safari
>>>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>> CB> I was reallysupprised  about how sluglish safari was after I
>>> did the
>>> CB> upgrade to snow leopard. It drove me crazy so I went & switched
>>> CB> browsers. I now use a older browser called: icab which is
>>> shareware
>>> CB> based. Its fully voice over accessable. It costs $20 for a
>>> license &
>>> CB> its very snappy in loading webpages unlike the way safari is  
>>> now.
>>>
>>> CB>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>>
>>>
>>> CB>
>>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >


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