Hello,
I'm one of the developers of WebVisum, a Firefox extension that allows
blind web surfers to share web page accessibility repairs across the
web, do OCR on images and solve CAPTCHAs. Check it out at
http://www.webvisum.com/
This tool was developed for Firefox because the extensibility mechanism
was easy for us to use, and because of the openness of the platform
accessibility solution, which is beneficial to our users and affords us
maximum future flexibility.
Recently I've really been pushing the Mozilla accessibility team to
develop VoiceOver compatibility. We'd like VoiceOver users to be able to
take advantage of WebVisum. I'm very persistent because we do get many
requests from VoiceOver users, and because I think Mac is important.
The team was sympathetic, and said they've been trying to do this since
2006, but stopped because of unresolved problems that they couldn't get
help with.
Aaron Leventhal (the Firefox accessibility lead) also wants to make
Firefox accessible on OS X so he wrote the following article:
http://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/firefox-and-os-xs-voiceover-reading-the-magic-8-ball/
The article is worth a read. I'd like to hear people's opinions on the
options going forward.
Thanks!
Marc Dohnal
