I think that Mozilla is used to working with Windows AT providers who
seem to be more flexible in modifying their products at Mozilla's
request, perhaps a good thing, perhaps not.
I understand that from a technical standpoint apple's accessibility
API cannot support all of the features that Mozilla desires, like live
region announcements. But, I think that it silly of mozilla to not
get as much working as they can under the restrictions of apple's
accessibility API. Perhaps I'll let mozilla know that.
Everett
On 23-Jan-09, at 10:39 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
Well, there's no IA2 on the Mac as far as I'm aware, there's apple
accessibility APIs instead.
As to whose problem it is... that's a point of debate. Mozilla
claims apple aren't doing enough, apple claim their APIs are fine
and that mozilla is taking a my way or the highway attitude. Take
your pick :). Personally, though I don't know whose problem it is, I
suspect it's both. I will say this, Mozilla came off very
standoffish in their blog post about this, almost as though they
believed they should be able to have their run of the Voiceover
codebase. They even went so far as to say that Apple needs to open
source Voiceover. Here's the blog post:
http://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/firefox-and-os-xs-voiceover-reading-the-magic-8-ball
On Jan 23, 2009, at 21:21, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening Jacob,
Is this a xul problem, or is it an IA2 problem? If Voiceover were
to support IA2 then I would guess that mozilla applications would
work with Voiceover. I could stop using XP, other than for
development, if VO supported Firefox / Chatzilla.
Thanks,
Everett
On 23-Jan-09, at 10:05 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
All mozilla software uses the same xul framework, so they all are
inaccessible with VO at this point.
On Jan 23, 2009, at 20:45, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening,
Does Thunderbird work with VO, or is it the same problem as
Firefox?
Thanks,
Everett
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