Re: Firefox accessiblity

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Manish:

Please check the recent list archives for info on firefox work.  There
is also a mozilla accessibility development mailing list, 
dev-accessibility lists mozilla org 

Here's a quotation from a recent email thread on Firefox accessibility:

> Yes.
> Firefox 1.5 or 2.0 will work better if you set GTK_MODULES to empty.
> But it still can work with gnopernicus if you don't do so.
> 
> On ubuntu 6.06, if you don't do so, Firefox 1.5 CANNOT work with gok  
> and gnopernicus screen review.
> Because ubuntu 6.06 sets GTK_MODULES to gail and atk-bridge  
> automatically, it will break Firefox's accessible tree.
> We fixed this issue in Firefox 2.0 and 3.0.

The best accessibility results are expected with Firefox 3.0, and that's
where most of the accessibility engineering work in Firefox is probably
taking place now (in the tree that will lead to 3.0).

Bill

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 07:38, Manish Sapariya wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am not sure whether I should be writing to this
> list of firefox/mozilla list. If this is not appropriate
> forum kindly let me know.
> 
> I am trying to automate firefox using at-spi/dogtail.
> However, when I traverse the tree for Gecko app,
> it just gives me access to main application and the
> frame window.
> 
> Most importantly I am trying to click on the dialog
> boxes poped up by javascript. The tree just gives
> me the frame of the dialog, but not access to the
> Ok/Cancel button or text of the dialog.
> 
> Do I need to customize the firefox code to get the
> access to these elements? Is there some work already
> going on to make firefox accessible.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
> 
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