For various reasons having to do with procedure, current Mozilla accessible is in a separate code branch. While the intention is to eventually merge the code supporting accessibility into Mozilla head, that's not where you will find it today. Firefox is a Mozilla variant. Accessible Mozilla is at: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/sites/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/accessibility/ Luke Yelavich writes: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:48:04AM EST, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Luke Yelavich writes: > > >I would stick with lynx at this stage, as accessible firefox is not > > >exactly ready for prime time yet. > > > > I can understand that since it is written for a GUI > > environment. Is there any project afoot to make it accessible one of > > these days? I still think the open-source software is more likely to > > give us better accessibility in the long run but patience will need to > > be a virtue since the problems that need to be solved are thorny to > > say the least. I think Firefox is open source but I may be mistaken. > > if you are prepared to spend time setting up X and GNOME, you can use > Gnopernicus to get an idea of what FireFox is like. Gnopernicus will > give you access to the GNOME desktop, and a bit of access in FireFox. > > FireFox has a carrot browsing mode, which basically allows you to move a > cursor round reading by line, etc. However, it doesn't as yet handle > complex site layouts, such as tables. It it turned on by the F7 key, > however the dialog that you get the first time is not read out either, > so there is still a lot of work to do. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list