Mozilla

[Charles Crawford]

they use alot of hacks to get the access.  The problem with that approach 
is that it only deals with a particular situation rather than estanlishing 
something a screen reader can query and get an answer to in many 
situations.  What a horrable sentence.  Sorry, in a rush.

-- charlie Crawford.
At 01:38 PM 6/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
>freedom scientific does use msaa more and more.  It is just not the core
>of their activity since they already had a good modem.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Mozilla
>
>
>Hi. Well what Greg said makes sense. Unless Freedom science fiction
>decided to make their own variation of msaa, which I think is highly
>unlikely.
>
>Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll.
>I'm sick of Winblows!
>On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
>
> > 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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