On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > What is the advantage of Mozilla over Internet Explorer? Mozilla is open source. IE is not. > > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Whitley GS11 Cecil H" <WhitleyCH at cherrypoint.usmc.mil> > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
