Re: [orca-list] Accessible Help

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Janina:

From http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499744#c12, the Yelp 
maintainer says:

"I'm planning on porting to gecko 1.9 in the upcoming release cycle (or 
at least, hoping yelp gets ported this release cycle).

There is an initial port to use WebKit, but it's very much just an 
experiment at this point.  Even if we were to integrate support, it 
would be an optional backend, along with gecko.  While WebKit is 
inaccessible, gecko will be the default and people would have to jump 
through hoops to enable WebKit support.

Note, since the pain we went through on the previous "gecko is 
inaccessible" bug (bug #157941), accessibility is one of my highest 
priorities."

I think we should applaud him for this.  It's so nice to see mainstream 
developers making accessibility a priority.  As Don does the work, we 
should also make sure we reciprocate and provide him with prompt testing 
when he's ready for it.

Will

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Will:
>
> Are we still expecting Yelp to upgrade to Gecko 1.9 following the
> Firefox 3 release so that Yelp will just be natively accessible?
>
> I'd like to add that Minefield's help has been very usable to me, even
> if I'm not always finding the detail I'd like. It will be a red-letter
> day when we can just press F1 and access help accessibly.
>
> Janina
>
> Willie Walker writes:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > Just an FYI..
> >
> > At CSUN, we were asked about the lack of good accessible help for GNOME, 
> > and I couldn't remember the workaround someone had posted.  I did some 
> > digging and found it in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356041.
> >
> > I also created/updated http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Yelp, which can be 
> > found from http://live.gnome.org/Orca/AccessibleApps.
> >
> > Will
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