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

I used Google Docs quite efficiently with Chrome and ChromeVox just a few years ago. I'm not sure how much things have changed. 

On 11/16/2015 07:25 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:

A Freedom Scientific tech guy told me two or three months ago that JAWS
did not work with Google Chrome, but that could have changed since then.
  I used NVDA some with Chrome on a borrowed laptop, and it worked
pretty well for the things I wanted.

In mid-June, my wife and I talked with somebody at the National
Federation of the Blind headquarters about the accessibility, or lack of
it, of Googledocs and the like.  She described Google's accessibility as
"a work in progress," and it seems there's been little progress in the
work since then.  As far as I can tell, though, the problem is not one
of caring about Windows over Linux.

Al

On 11/16/2015 8:13 AM, kendell clark wrote:

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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