Re: Firefox accessiblity

[manish <manish gs-lab com>]

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the pointer.
Firefox 3.0 (Minefield) has whatever I need.
Regards,
Manish

Bill Haneman wrote:

> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> > gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
> >    
>
>