Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Will writes:

> suppose someone wanted to write a
> keyboard navigation extension for Firefox to do better handling of caret
> and structural navigation than we can do in Orca.  Do you have an idea
> of how difficult/complex this might be and do you know of someone that
> might want to do it (and get paid for it)?

Well, to some extent, FireVox implements this now:
http://firevox.clcworld.net/

 I haven't really used it extensively though, so don't know what its 
shortcomings are.  However, it does not attempt to overload the arrow keys, 
in fact it doesn't use them at all. I'd like to see smart use of arrow 
keys - i.e. something that takes the best navigation from Orca and Jaws and 
rolls them into one.

I think the issues will be with the screen readers which use virtual 
buffers - can we get them to move their point of regard consistently as we 
shift mozilla's focus? I don't know. The rest seems pretty easy (famous last 
words).

I'd love to do this (and get paid), but I want to investigate a few things 
before I really commit.  I'm currently reworking linkslist into 
headingslist, which will include next/previous heading commands. This will 
attempt to shift focus from heading to heading, so will give me a pretty 
good idea of how screen readers deal with this.  Stay tuned...

-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Hammer Attila" <hammera pickup hu>
Cc: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension


> Rich:
>
> Yeah - thanks for taking the plunge on this and showing folks it's not
> all that bad to do things "in process" in Firefox, and that it can be
> much more performant than if we tried to do it in Orca.
>
> I have a question for you -- so, just suppose someone wanted to write a
> keyboard navigation extension for Firefox to do better handling of caret
> and structural navigation than we can do in Orca.  Do you have an idea
> of how difficult/complex this might be and do you know of someone that
> might want to do it (and get paid for it)?
>
> Will
>
> Hammer Attila wrote:
> > Dear List!
> >
> > Rich, congratulation this extension!
> > I am very happy because this function is easyest using links with
> > Firefox and Orca.
> > I have a little questions:
> > How can I translate the extension message when pressing alt+shift+l
> > combination with hungarian language? Ok and cancel button translated
> > correctly because this buttons already translated.
> >
> > Later, I would like learn how can I write nicefuly accessible extensions
> > with firefox and Orca. It is difficult? Have a good documentation how
> > can I doing nice extensions?
> >
> > Possible doing lists of forms elements, headers etc?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Attila
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