Ang. RE: Ang. [oats-sig] Mozilla accessibility activity

Based on the functionality of Firevox it would be grand to consider adding the navigation and UI support from the WWAAC browser as an additional plugin to Firefox.

Mats Wrote: (sorry text only email makes hard work of HTML)

>Based on the functionality of Firevox it would be grand to consider adding the navigation and UI support from the WWAAC browser as an additional plugin to Firefox. 

Is the source available then Mats?

>One thing to remember though is that however fancy support you provide for a special task and app - like Firefox/Firevox - most users in need for this will also need and want that support for other similar tasks on their systems. >From that point of view it is always a bit questionable to invest too much energy in developing application and task specific support in isolation. A user who needs this support when browsing on the Internet with Firefox will also need it when coping with text in other situations - that is a more general purpose screen reading and text input text-to-speech support. So it is a challange to make things come together - providing extra task and application specific support that can cooperate with and enhance more general purpose tools.<br>On the other hand, more and more tasks are handled as web apps via the web browser, so it is very 

I quite agree even though the 'web as platform' and Web 2.0 are growing
rapidly. Despite this I believe Aaron at Mozilla is keen to support the
development of more general solutions like Orca.

Steve