Cool thanks for this Chris, I'll take a look at this.
TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 20:15, Chris Blouch wrote: > Ahh, wasn't aware of that. According to > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility#How_to_build_Firefox_with_accessibility > > you can build a version with the VO accessibility turned on, at least to the > extent they've implemented. Has anyone tried this? > > https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Mac_OS_X_Prerequisites > > Unfortunatly the last update from Håkan Waara is from November 2006 so I > would hope there is a lot more in the build. > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility_Tasks > > CB > > James & Nash wrote: >> >> Hi Chris >> >> You wrote: >>> 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. >> >> It has been done for Linux and Orca - at least as far as Firefox is >> concerned. >> >> TC >> James >> On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:55, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> -- >> >> 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. 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