Re: firefox on a mac?

[Chris Blouch]

Your explanation seems correct but I would tweak it to say that the 
Mozilla contributors have already written the 'glue' code that connects 
Firefox to the accessibility APIs on Linux or Windows. Each of those 
platforms has its own accessibility framework just like the Mac. There 
just hasn't been a set of deep pockets to fund the Mac dev work like on 
the other platforms and volunteers so far have not made it happen. 
Following the money trail is a bit difficult but I suspect IBM funded 
much of the IAccessible2 work and Google probably chipped in on MSAA. If 
Apple sprinkled some dollars or people resources in the right place I 
would guess that FF would get happy with voiceover. Of course as the 
sole developer of Safari, I'm not sure how much Apple would be motivated 
to put resources into Firefox.

CB
James & Nash wrote:
Hi Anouk,-- 

You wrote:
  
Hi everyone, i just dled firefox 3.5 because i wanted to try it with snow 
leopard but if i open it i cant do anything at all, it just says firefox has no 
windows and i can topen a menu or do anything. Does firefox not work with sl or 
is it just totally not acccessible (i saw the release i downloaded was written 
for mac 10.5).
    

As far as I am aware, the situation is as follows:

Because Firefox is a cross-platform browser, it has been very difficult for the 
developers to make the browser accessible to Voice Over users because Apple 
employs its own accessibility frameworks for Mac OS X. Therefore, the folks at 
Mozilla must create by hand all the accessibility functionality that Linux and 
Windows users have by default.

I know that the developers would welcome assistance in this, but I am not 
confident enough in programming yet to offer them this help.

I know that there are other, better qualified people on this list who could give you a better break down of the current situation, so if my info is incorrect or in any way in accurate, please feel free to set me straight. 

HTH
TC
James 
On 11 Jan 2010, at 01:48, anouk radix wrote:

  
Hi everyone, i just dled firefox 3.5 because i wanted to try it with snow 
leopard but if i open it i cant do anything at all, it just says firefox has no 
windows and i can topen a menu or do anything. Does firefox not work with sl or 
is it just totally not acccessible (i saw the release i downloaded was written 
for mac 10.5).
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