standards compliance. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:39 AM Subject: Re: Mozilla What is the advantage of Mozilla over Internet Explorer? Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Whitley GS11 Cecil H" <WhitleyCH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Mozilla > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
