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

Based on the functionality of Firevox it would be grand to consider

No source code available for the final WWAAC browser I'm afraid. It is a 
Delphi application built around the MS IE component, and it's got links to 
Handicom proprietary modules for some of the functionality (though the 
basic functionality is independant).  We have the source for an earlier 
prototype for the browser developed in Java based on an earlier Java 
browser component. But that is a bit outdated. 
I suppose the most productive thing for such a project would actually not 
be to dive into old code, but rather to use the design of the browser as a 
spec for a new implementation of an alternative plugin UI skin for 
Firefox/Firevox. I'll talk this over with our programmers here (Bengt and 
Lars). Possibly the self contained Java UI building tool and the XML based 
tailored UI skin files could be re-used without too much hazzle?

About general purpose applications: Yes, Ocra is interesting, but that 
will be for users with major visual problems, and on Linux only won't it? 

It would be interesting to consider an "Ocra Lite" as an OS, and ideally 
cross-platform, basic speech and screen reading support,  targetted at a 
wider group of people with needs for reading support, and which could then 
be used and provided with enhanced functionality within different 
applications - like OO.org etc. It would contain tailorable speech support 
for keyboard input, option for reading of text copied to the clipboard, 
basic screen reading of text under the cursor and focussed UI components, 
and hooks for more advanced reading (like in Firevox - with navigation and 
reading, highliting of text etc)  within selected applications like OO.org 
and ABI Word.

Mats 

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

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

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