While the core is cross-platform, their accessibility hooks are going to be proprietary such as MSAA on Windows. This same proprietary dev work will have to be done for Mac, Linux and other platforms.
CB James & Nash wrote: > Hi Joel, > > You wrote: > >> I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the >> Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle >> down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. >> > > I think you may be right. Due to Mozilla's applications being cross platform, > they cannot natively gain access to the accessibility that Apple has written > into OSX for VO. I know that there is a specific developer working on this > issue, but he needs more help. He needs to create all the accessibility bits > and pieces by hand in order for Voice Over to be able to access FireFox and > supposedly Thunderbird correctly. This is not the case with Orca on Linux, > but I'm not sure why. > > HTH > TC > James > On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:35, Joel Zimba wrote: > > >> I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the >> Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle >> down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. >> >> I used to use Thunderbird and it was a great mail program. >> >> Joel >> >> On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >>> I noticed that the final 3.0 release of Thunderbird 3 for MacOSX came >>> out last week. Last I read the betas were not accessible with Voiceover >>> (just MSAA/Windows). Has anyone tried the real release and found any >>> difference? >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
