Re: [orca-list] Reading texts in Firefox/XUL applications

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Seems to me that Firefox should attempt to provide some rutamentary carret 
navigation in XUL elements.  Also, its my understanding that XUL doesn't 
really have specific elements for displaying large amounts of textual data; 
it can use HTML elements for this.  Most of what XUL provides are various 
flavors of input: single and multi-line text input, trees, listboxes, 
checkboxes, radio buttons and explicit radio button groups, labels, and 
simple push buttons). It has box elements for layout (sort of like divs), 
but no paragraph or heading.

Just my two cents.
-- Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milan Zamazal" <pdm brailcom org>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:06 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Reading texts in Firefox/XUL applications


According to Firefox developers, Firefox shouldn't provide caret
browsing of texts in applications and it should be solely screen
reader's job to read the text, including navigation over lines and
reading single characters (see their response to the following Firefox
bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399059
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399158).

So the question is: Can Orca provide the necessary functions for reading
long and/or difficult to understand texts in Firefox applications or are
there any plans to make Orca improvements in this area?

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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