Mozilla

[David Poehlman]

I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romualt.dhs.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Mozilla


Since window-eyes already supports anything with msaa, I think gw-micro
is covered for netscape support if it indeed contains msaa.
Greg


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:51:03AM -0400, Whitley GS11 Cecil H wrote:
> Hello,
> I hesitate to even mention this because I don't want to start another
> battle.  However, I feel that there is a segment of this community
that this
> effects and who will be interested.  Yesterday in my wanderings (I was
> checking out the latest status of Gnome) I ran across some very
interesting
> information.  Mozilla currently supports MSAA on the Windows platform.
> Since the VP of development for Freedom Scientific had testified in
April
> that Netscape does not support accessability I found it curious to say
the
> least that Netscape uses Mozilla's technology in it's latest browser
and
> therefore supports both MSAA and DOM.
>
> Okay, what's my point?  Simply this, I wrote
> suggestions at freedomscientific.com and requested that they support
Mozilla on
> the Windows platform given that the Mozilla developers are suporting
> accessability in their product.  I indicated that I felt their company
> should suport Mozilla at least as well as they suport Internet
Explorer
> given that it provides more choice for the visually impaired
community.  I
> know that some of the users on this list would benefit from experience
with
> Mozilla on windows so that they are "up to speed" on it once it is
available
> under Gnome.  So with that said, I would like to request that if you
are a
> jaws user (or any other windows screen reader for that matter) that
you let
> your voice be heard by your respective vendor.
>
> I realize that lynx and links won't go away simply because a GUI is
> available, however much of the point of Mozilla is it's ability to be
> imbedded within apps.  Feedback from the community as a whole would be
> benificial to insure that the product is as accessable as possible for
those
> who will "have" to use it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecil
>
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