Ok, and we need to know all of this for what reason?
Carolyn
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From: Chris Hofstader
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: Blog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow
Leopard
With last year's lay offs at IBM and last week's lay offs at Sun, the future
of large scale accessibility projects in free/open source software looks pretty
disorganized at the moment. Marco (with whom I used to work at Freedom
Scientific) is really dedicated but the overwhelmingly large Windows market
share leads the understaffed Mozilla to pretty much focus on Windows
accessibility with proprietary screen access tools like JAWS and Window-Eyes.
While this is unfortunate, it does reach the majority of users so, without
Apple or some other big organization to underwrite an accessibility effort,
it's all up to volunteers. I would think that orca itself would require at
least one full time paid staff member and we ain't got the cash for a part
timer in a lower cost environment like China.
Project GNU (www.gnu.org) is kicking off its first ever accessibility effort.
This project has zero money and only me to look after it in my spare time. We
will, of course, be focussing on GNU/Linux distros and I can't say that I know
enough about Apple accessibility API to know how similar it is to what I think
is iAccessible2 at the heart of Firefox access on Windows. I do not know what
it uses on GNOME but I would assume it is the GNOME accessibility API.
The bad economy in the US and EU is killing large scale free software
efforts. We're back to mostly volunteers and scholars working randomly on their
favorite issues. I'm going to try to add some order to all of this but it will
be a cat herding effort and there are a lot of cats involved.
cdh
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Looking forward to trying out Firefox with VO working someday. FF has
really good ARIA support so it would be nice to have a browser on the Mac that
works well with this standard. Safari currently is weak.
CB
E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning,
This morning I posted a new blog article on my site: First Glance at
Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard, which can be accessed at
http://tinyurl.com/ygkfqoj
Thanks,Everett
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