Re: [orca-list] any update onf chromium accessibility?

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I'd be surprised if Google mentioned anything about Windows in their 
response to a question on Chromium and Orca. I'm also not sure I'd take 
something like this as gospel if it comes from someone who thinks they 
heard it from someone else that Google said ....

Google develops their own operating systems and their own screen 
readers. Furthermore, they use their own Ubuntu based distribution 
internally. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't prioritize getting 
Chrome working with Orca, but I'd be surprised if it has much to do with 
Windows.

I'd also check out how well Chrome works with the Windows screen readers 
before assuming the support is only basic or that it isn't being 
supported any more. Last I knew, Chrome worked well with NVDA and JAWS. 
I don't use these combinations myself, so it should be checked out first 
hand before making any decisions based on this information, but from the 
Windows lists I'm on, blind people are claiming they're using Chrome 
with NVDA and JAWS. I'm not sure how much Google had to do with this 
support or if it was something the screen reader developers took on 
themselves.

On 11/16/2015 04:33 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> I just tried latest orca master with latest chromium in arch,46.0.209,
> and no luck. It's completely blank. According to mails I remember from
> this list, joanie says it's not anything she can do, but rather google
> needs to add the appropriate at-spi/atk stuff. I remember being told
> that when someone attempted to request this, google responded with the
> old favorite, windows is more popular and linux isn't so we won't
> support it. The ironic thing is that on windows, it's inaccessible as
> well, unless you download chromevox. Nvda has some very basic support
> for it, but it doesn't work well and I don't think it's actively
> maintained. I'd be happy to work to resolve this though, as another
> browser is always a good thing
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
>
>
> On 11/16/2015 03:35 AM, kk wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I wish to now what is the state of Chromium browser acccessibility, with
> > or without Orca?
> > if there is some thing how to get it started?
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
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