Firefox in Linux?

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Fri Feb 11 14:49:38 UTC 2005


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 mailing list
> Blinux-list at redhat.com
> 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 at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.




More information about the Blinux-list mailing list