And one could wonder whether the MacOS/IOS install scripts are doing a
bit more to configure the application for the environment.

Clearly, support for the Apple accessibility environment is essential
for the Voice Over user. At best using brew is a gamble that the sources
would include that, whereas the traditional approach rather guarantees
it.

Krishnakent, I think we can now explain why you didn't get accessibility
support.

Jonathan C. Cohn writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I only se home brew to download Linux / Unix like applications that are not 
> available as MacOS binaries either from the AppStore or the vendor's site. In 
> the case of FireFox and ThunderBird that would be Mozilla.org.
> The direct URL for getting Firefox is:https://www.firefox.com/en-US/
> Which is where I got directed from https://www.mozilla.org 
> 
> The Linux builds of Firefox only include IA2 accessibility API???s, which 
> don???t work with VoiceOver sometime about 5 years ago, Firefox started 
> adding the VoiceOver APIs to their Mac builds.
> 
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