Hi Chris You wrote: > While the core is cross-platform, their accessibility hooks are going to be > proprietary such as MSAA on Windows. This same proprietary dev work will have > to be done for Mac, Linux and other platforms.
It has been done for Linux and Orca - at least as far as Firefox is concerned. TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:55, Chris Blouch wrote: > While the core is cross-platform, their accessibility hooks are going to be > proprietary such as MSAA on Windows. This same proprietary dev work will have > to be done for Mac, Linux and other platforms. > > CB > > James & Nash wrote: >> >> Hi Joel, >> >> You wrote: >> >>> I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the >>> Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle >>> down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. >>> >> >> I think you may be right. Due to Mozilla's applications being cross >> platform, they cannot natively gain access to the accessibility that Apple >> has written into OSX for VO. I know that there is a specific developer >> working on this issue, but he needs more help. He needs to create all the >> accessibility bits and pieces by hand in order for Voice Over to be able to >> access FireFox and supposedly Thunderbird correctly. This is not the case >> with Orca on Linux, but I'm not sure why. >> >> HTH >> TC >> James >> On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:35, Joel Zimba wrote: >> >> >>> I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the >>> Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle >>> down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. >>> >>> I used to use Thunderbird and it was a great mail program. >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I noticed that the final 3.0 release of Thunderbird 3 for MacOSX came >>>> out last week. Last I read the betas were not accessible with Voiceover >>>> (just MSAA/Windows). Has anyone tried the real release and found any >>>> difference? >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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.
