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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
You have some really good points. To expand on this, I have actually
tried out both chromium and chrome with nvda. This does in fact work,
kind of. Pressing tab often results in "unknown" rather than a link or
some other control. I don't use jaws or window eyes, nor does mellisa so
I can't comment on those. To be honest, I don't know absolutely for sure
that google refuses to fix chrome or chromium's accessibility because of
linux's popularity, I only know I was told this by several people. I'll
make it a point to see if I can find anything on the internet to prove
or disprove my point but I'd love nothing more than to be wrong. I did
try the --force-renderer accessibility command, but nothing happened. I
tried both --force-renderer accessibility and
--force-renderer-accessibility to no avail. I do know google is a big
linux supporter, so it does seem odd that they'd mention windows, but
shrug. Google is also a corporation and all about their bottom line, and
such people tend to think in usage percentages, market shares, market
penetration, such stuff that doesn't make much sense to me at all and to
be honest, seems rather irrelevant. This is just my opinion though.

Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/16/2015 06:58 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 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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