Yeah, but it really would be nice to have Firefox accessible out of
the box. Besides, firevox or whatever is flakey and you can't always
get what you want.
On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:37 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
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
