David,
Our plugin uses some very low level stuff to do its magic. It would be
a complete rewrite to make WebVisum work in Safari, if at all possible.
WebVisum already works well in Firefox on Windows and Linux - probably
other non-Mac platforms as well. When the mobile version of Firefox
comes out, there are good chances we'll be easily able to make it work
there too.
On top of all that, we do not have the resources to do a complete
rewrite and then to support two code bases with every fix, update and
enhancement we do.
The best solution for everyone would be to get Firefox to work with
VoiceOver as Firefox is a very open and flexible platform - its also
very easy to develop for, there are tons of useful plugins available for
it, a bunch of plugins exist for blind and visually impaired users.
Best,
Marc
David Poehlman wrote:
oh, boo funk!
There are dozens of plugins for safari, surely they could find a way if they
wanted to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Making Firefox and WebVisum accessible with VoiceOver
will lomas wrote:
cant you make the tool work with safari on mac os x?
As Marc mentioned: "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."
Safari doesn't have an official extension mechanism, let alone an easy
to use one.
Some WebKit-based browsers (iCab for example) allow user JavaScript; I
don't know how much WebVisum functionality could be implemented using
that alone.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
