Re: Orca and Firefox

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Christian,

As Willie suggests, try 'em all and use what works best for you.  I 
would not expect Gnopernicus to be significantly better than Orca.  The 
issue isn't the screen reader so much, as the information that the web 
browser is (or is not) giving the screen reader. 

Sun made a branch of Mozilla 1.7, and managed to get into it a number of 
features that they weren't able to put back into the main CVS repository 
of Mozilla.  That work is now happening, in some new, different, and 
exciting ways in Firefox 3.0 - where we hope we will see very compelling 
web access on UNIX/Linux.

Meanwhile, you are welcome to try the Sun branch of Mozilla 1.7.  You 
can find the last builds of that (from April 2005) at: 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Hello Will,
> Many thanks for that info. So if I want to use Firefox I have to use either Gnopernicus or textbased Internet?
> Many thanks,
> Christian
>
>
> On 2006-11-02 at 09:10 Willie Walker wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi Christian:
> >
> > Firefox is not ready for compelling access yet.  You can kind of limp
> > along many web pages using Orca with Firefox 2, but it's not anything
> > I'd call great.
> >
> > We're are currently working closely with the Firefox team and are
> > targeting the Firefox 3 release as means to provide compelling access to
> > the web using Orca.  Interim releases will be available between now and
> > the Firefox 3 release (currently looks like Spring '07).  If all goes
> > well, this will coincide nicely with the GNOME 2.18 release.
> >
> > For braille, if you run BrlTTY and have BrlAPI installed on your
> > machine, Orca should hopefully just find it and use it.  If it doesn't,
> > you may need to make sure braille support is enabled in the Orca
> > preferences.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:53 +0100, Christian wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi all,
> > > After all, I decided to go for Ubuntu since I was able to install it
> > >       
> > with the help of Orca and also since it is based on Debian which I have
> > been using a little I know how to use apt and such.
> >     
> > > However, how do I use Orca in Firefox or where can I find out more info?
> > > I would also like to use braille, can I use Orca with BRLTTY like
> > >       
> > GNopernicus?
> >     
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Christian
> > >
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