Re: [orca-list] Warning: Latest Firefox not generating events for menus

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis googlemail com>]

Have you spoken to Charles L. Chen, the Fire Vox developer, about 
getting Fire Vox to speak in dialog boxes?

I think I used to force Fire Vox to run in the development version of 
Firefox using the Nightly Tester Tools (which can disable extension 
compatibility testing):

http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Does anyone know if this still works?

Useful accessibility extensions for Firefox include:

http://accessibar.mozdev.org/

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

Greasemonkey scripts for accessibility:

http://userscripts.org/tag/accessibility

See also:

http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1040

I don't think Firefox will provide a stable accessibility experience on 
GNOME until version 3.

Don't lose heart, as there's a lot to look forward to: apparently, Opera 
is also planning to make their browser accessible to Linux screen readers:

http://my.opera.com/chaals/blog/speaking-out?cid=2506923

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Hermann wrote:
> Hi Joanie,
> this happens since Friday 13th, :-( and it also concerns the 
> localizations, that are one day behind.
> Furthermore: The versions since 10th of April were very crashy. The 
> latest stable one is the 9th of April.
> This observations lead me to the question what a person can do, who 
> needs a stable browser in a productive environment? He/she can use a 
> text browser when possible, but what to do if this don't work?
> The recommended Firevox add-on does work on webpages in FF2, but it 
> turns off the braille display and, more important, it does not speak at 
> all in dialogs. Are there more extensions for FF2 that make the browser 
> more accessible for persons who really need a browser for their daily 
> work and cannot rely on developer versions?
> For example: Can Greasemonkey be such an accessibility enhancement?
> Regards
> Hermann
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