Accessible firefox

Chris Norman cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk
Wed Feb 7 09:40:19 EST 2007


Great stuff, cheers.

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:07 -0500, Ricky Enger wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> David has given you the link to Firevox, which is 
> self-voicing.  However, lots of improvements have been made with Orca 
> and Firefox 3, and it's actually quite usable now.  You can download 
> the latest build of Firefox 3 from
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
> 
> Once you've done that, you'll need to add a couple of lines to your 
> /.orca/user-settings.py or /.orca/orca-customizations.py to make 
> things work as they should.
> 
>          import orca.Gecko
>          orca.Gecko.controlCaretNavigation = True
> 
> This is definitely worth checking out!  There are still some bugs, 
> but browsing is a far more pleasant experience than it was before.
> 
> Hth,
> Ricky
> 
> At 07:31 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi lis,
> >Does anyone know where I can get the accessible version of firefox from
> >please? Either source or from the debbian repositories.
> >
> >Cheers,
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