Mozilla

[Janina Sajka]

Charlie, I don't have as much trouble with your sentence as I do
with your pronouns. Who be those "they" that you refer to. I
can't tell who's who in your mind.

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:

> 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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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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