Ahh, wasn't aware of that. According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility#How_to_build_Firefox_with_accessibility
you can build a version with the VO accessibility turned on, at least to the extent they've implemented. Has anyone tried this? https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Mac_OS_X_Prerequisites Unfortunatly the last update from Håkan Waara is from November 2006 so I would hope there is a lot more in the build. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility_Tasks CB James & Nash wrote: > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto: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.
