Re: [orca-list] Accessibility of Chromium / Google Chrome

[Craig Blake <cmb1589 gmail com>]

Dominic, 

Firstly I know you are looking for developers in particular, but since I
use the magnifier part of Orca, I'd like to get involved somehow, since
I've experienced problems graphically. I can imagine that would have
something to do with GTK+ more than Orca or WebKit. 

I'm also interested in development. since I'm a web developer (though
only limited to HTML, CSS and a small bit of PHP) I'd like to eventually
get technically involved in the development of accessibility with many
applications and products on Linux, let alone Chrome.

If there is any way I could be of assistance in testing, I'd be happy to
help.

Regards,
Craig 

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On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:10 -0700, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm one of the developers of Chrome accessibility support at Google. I
> know that there's been some interest in making Chrome accessible with
> Orca on Linux, so I decided to join this list to talk about it some
> more.
>
> To answer some questions from previous posts, yes, Chrome does use
> GTK+, so making the user interface accessible will be relatively easy.
> Unfortunately, Chrome does not use the GTK+ port of Webkit, and there
> are technical reasons why it's not possible for us to use that code
> directly, so we'd have to rewrite most of that code.
>
> My question is, are there any Orca / GTK+ developers on this list who
> would be interested in working on this with us? Based on my experience
> making Chrome accessible on Windows and Mac, making a web browser
> accessible is very tricky and complicated, and almost impossible
> without some help from someone who's really familiar with the screen
> reader's source code. Ideally I'd like to find someone who'd be
> willing to compile Chromium from source and then help test patches
> that make it accessible and help debug things when Orca doesn't behave
> as expected.
>
> - Dominic
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