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 Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) Email: [email protected] 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> >>> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
