Hi. This is exactly the same issue I brought up over the weekend. Not entirely sure what's going on here. On 2012-06-18, at 3:07 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
> Hi all, I've downloaded the latest nightly build of firefox which in my case > is 16.0a1 but for reasons unknown it doesn't contain the voiceover support. > My point that I'm trying to make is that I red somewhere from the firefox > nightly that had support for VO was meant to be included by default from that > version onwards. I tried downloading the one that had this support again but > the link appears to of broken. > > Can anyone download the latest version and comferm that the voiceover support > is missing? > > I'm dissapointed. Sad smile. > > Daniel > On 18 Jun 2012, at 16:08, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> For real information I suggest you keep tabs on the developer's blog here: >> >> http://www.marcozehe.de/ >> >> although there hasn't been much since his April 30 post about VO being in >> the nightly builds of Firefox: >> >> http://www.marcozehe.de/2012/04/30/initial-voiceover-support-now-in-firefox-nightly-builds-for-mac-os-x/ >> >> he does mention an OSX accessibility meta bug which has all the known issues >> attached to it so you can add more and/or read about the current state of >> things here: >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=342989&hide_resolved=1 >> >> CB >> >> On 6/16/12 7:57 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >>> that is typical of mozilla and their software for OS X. I have sent them >>> lots of email explaining why they *NEED* to make firefox accessible on the >>> OS X platform and all I get back anymore is the canned response about >>> thanking me for my input, yadda yadda yadda.. incidentally, I have been >>> doing this for slightly more than 3 years. the first couple of times, I >>> actually had a human respond to me about keeping a separate code base, >>> seeking access to apple's entire source tree, etc. it really does look like >>> they won't do much unless they can get unfettered access to apple's source >>> tree. apple did publish their API standards and that is all they are >>> required to do. I think it is also that they want to use Apple's >>> development environment without paying for the privilege (it is not free, >>> but the price is still cheap enough that I can afford it). >>> >>> It seems to me that mozilla needs to hear from every blind/VI user of OS X >>> (and not just by email). >>> >>> -eric >>> >>> On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> I'm messing around with the nightly build of FireFox. I understood that >>>> this was supposed to be at least partly accessible. >>>> Seems to me that it's just as bad as it ever was. Might I be doing >>>> something wrong? I don't see any HTML area, toolbar, scroll area, nothing. >>>> All I see are buttons for close, full screen and zoom. >>>> Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this. >>>> Matthew Campbell. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
