Re: Yelp and a11y

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:01 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> In the 2.9 series, Yelp is using Gecko as its rendering engine.  It
> seems that the accessibility isn't quite up to par.  On my machine, at-
> poke is able to see the text of the page, but it doesn't seem to show
> the links as anything special.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157941
> 
> This is a major problem.  If it can't be fixed soon, then I'll have to
> punt another release cycle with Yelp.  It's too late in the game to put
> gtkhtml2 back onto HEAD and hook all the code paths up.
> 
> I've tried digging into this, but I don't understand much of our a11y
> architecture, and I don't really know the internals of Gecko very well.
> 
> Thoughts, questions, comments?

Hi,

I'm going to look into this now... Sorry I know I promised it a while
ago :)

Marco