Well, you need the OS hooks (in this case MSAA), you need the application to
make use of it (which netscape does from what I'm hearing), you need the app
to make use of the document object model (which it does), you need jaws to
be able to reference the DOM (which it only does if the application vendor
provides a hook or call which a jaws script can make to get the DOM object
tree), and then you need jaws scripts to pull it all together. Thus, if
freedom Science Fiction and netscape get together a bit then it might
happen. However, if they don't cooperate then I don't think jaws can see the
DOM and thus can't do much with netscape.
Please set me straight if I'm wrong on this one! Maybe just the act of
supporting MSAA will give the screen reader access to the DOM. Maybe all
that needs to be done is writing the scripts, which isn't a huge deal since
much can be reused from the Internet Explorer scripts.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Mozilla
> Hi. Well what Greg said makes sense. Unless Freedom science fiction
> decided to make their own variation of msaa, which I think is highly
> unlikely.
>
> Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romualt.dhs.org>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: Mozilla
> >
> >
> > Since window-eyes already supports anything with msaa, I think gw-micro
> > is covered for netscape support if it indeed contains msaa.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:51:03AM -0400, Whitley GS11 Cecil H wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I hesitate to even mention this because I don't want to start another
> > > battle. However, I feel that there is a segment of this community
> > that this
> > > effects and who will be interested. Yesterday in my wanderings (I was
> > > checking out the latest status of Gnome) I ran across some very
> > interesting
> > > information. Mozilla currently supports MSAA on the Windows platform.
> > > Since the VP of development for Freedom Scientific had testified in
> > April
> > > that Netscape does not support accessability I found it curious to say
> > the
> > > least that Netscape uses Mozilla's technology in it's latest browser
> > and
> > > therefore supports both MSAA and DOM.
> > >
> > > Okay, what's my point? Simply this, I wrote
> > > suggestions at freedomscientific.com and requested that they support
> > Mozilla on
> > > the Windows platform given that the Mozilla developers are suporting
> > > accessability in their product. I indicated that I felt their company
> > > should suport Mozilla at least as well as they suport Internet
> > Explorer
> > > given that it provides more choice for the visually impaired
> > community. I
> > > know that some of the users on this list would benefit from experience
> > with
> > > Mozilla on windows so that they are "up to speed" on it once it is
> > available
> > > under Gnome. So with that said, I would like to request that if you
> > are a
> > > jaws user (or any other windows screen reader for that matter) that
> > you let
> > > your voice be heard by your respective vendor.
> > >
> > > I realize that lynx and links won't go away simply because a GUI is
> > > available, however much of the point of Mozilla is it's ability to be
> > > imbedded within apps. Feedback from the community as a whole would be
> > > benificial to insure that the product is as accessable as possible for
> > those
> > > who will "have" to use it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Cecil
> > >
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