web browsing and section 508 under linux

[Karen Lewellen]

Yes,
It is my understanding firefox works wonderfully with window eyes.  Perhaps 
the problem is jfw?   it usually is where the problem lies, grin.
Karen

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, David Poehlman wrote:

> I have not found it to be inaccessible at all.  The accessibility features 
> weere invented due to the inequities in screen readers, osx rewrites this 
> paradigm.
>
> -- 
> Jonnie Apple Seed
> With His:
> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>
>
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
>
> But it doesn't work at all with accessibility related features.
>
> You can't navigate by headers, read alt tags automatically, use forms
> reliably, and so forth ...
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Glenn at home
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:49 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: web browsing and section 508 under linux
>
> What about FireFox?
> It works with JFW, but it is not easy to use since its not too good with
> tabbing, but it works with the Jaws cursor, if one can tolerate that.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Mann" <rmann at rmisp.net>
> To: "ajred" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com>; "Speakup is a screen review
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: web browsing and section 508 under linux
>
>
>
> For an accessible web browser that works under Xwindows, you might want to
> look at Freedombox.  It uses Mozilla for web browsing.  I've used it under
> Linux and it works pretty well.  Their web site is
> http://www.freedombox.info or http://linux.freedombox.info.
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jared wrote:
>
>
>> I have to do some testing for section 508 compliance on a product at
>> the company I work for. I know I will be using internet explorer under
>> windows. This product is supposed to be cross platform, is there any
>> browser that's accessible enough to test under linux which works under
>> x-windows? Appreciate any info.
>> 
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