Re: Yelp and the Future

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

> 	Since Mozilla being inaccessible seems to be relatively fine with the
> a11y community (since lynx etc. are accessible through accessible
> terminals),
This is a misconception; for instance neither 'links' nor 'lynx' are 
accessible via gnome-terminal, and their support for real-world webpages 
is poor.  You're also limiting your scope to blind users in this case, 
while there are many other accessibility use cases which links/lynx 
don't support.

> perhaps a simple command line version of yelp which
> pre-generates the html and runs lynx would be sufficient accessibility
> support for the Geckofied yelp?
>  
I don't think so.  It doesn't help GOK users, and would require blind 
users to leave GNOME and run a text-only console instead.

The right fix is to get the a11y fixes upstream into gecko, and get the 
integration glitches ironed out.  With cooperation I don't see why this 
can't happen for 2.12, but things just didn't come together in time for 
2.10.

regards,

- Bill