Re: [orca-list] Firefox 3 find and alt tags

[Janina Sajka <janina a11y org>]

You've put your finger on the key question. My guess was that it might
not be a big deal, but that's only my not particularly educated guess.
Obviously, if it requires more in the way of coding and testing, it
would need to be an FF3++ issue.

Janina

David E. Price writes:
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Firefox 3 find and alt tags
>
>
> > Would we consider it a bug that FF3 isn't searching alt tags already? I
> > suspect only bugs are being addressed at this stage in the FF3 release
> > cycle.
>
> I don't think that this will be trivial to fix. I'm guessing here, but I 
> think they will have to do a lot of work on their parsing and mapping 
> methods.  If anyone knows the code, please comment.
>
> I think it is too late in the cycle to call this one a bug, and I don't 
> think it will get addressed in this cycle even if I do call it a bug.  Just 
> my thoughts...
>
> dave

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