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

[Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

HI.
I think that I can help in someway. At least compiling and testing.

On 08/15/2011 05:10 PM, 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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