Mark, I appreciate your efforts and those of the mozilla team in attempting to provide voiceover users with choices.
Without going into a long drawn out explanation of how to arrive at the conclusions we seek, I would point you to the folk who will listen and who can make this happen. please write: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with full details, refer to the bugs that are already referenced and any others you come across that are rellevent to the apple accessibility apis. When there is something we can pound on, I'd appreciate knowing about and will certainly give it a go. Also, You may know that there is a firefox extention (fire vox) which works with the apple voices and makes firefox accessible to us. ----- Original Message ----- From: "WebVisum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:11 PM Subject: Making Firefox and WebVisum accessible with VoiceOver 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
