Thunder screen reader

Is there any way to have Thunder read more than one line or one paragraph at a time? Yes, I know NVDA is better for me but I am not particularly accessibility minded. I'd like to read whole books using Thunder as I'm recovering from cataract surgery at the moment. (And a second op to come). Sincerely Chris

ASSETS 2010 - MENTOR PROGRAM

Would you like to be a ASSETS 2010 Mentor? Are you looking for a ASSETS 2010 Mentor? The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010) Deadline to request a Mentor: March 5th, 2010 Deadline to volunteer as a Mentor: March 7th, 2010 Website: http://www.sigaccess.org/assets10/mentor.html Volunteering to be an ASSETS Mentor We are looking for experienced authors to help us with mentoring individuals new to the ASSETS conference. If you have published in ASSETS or similar venues, we encourage you to volunteer to be a mentor.

How to avoid closing T-bird when closing last tab

I saw a msg asking about how to not accidentally close Thunderbird when closing last tab. The msg is gone from the Mozi server now it seems, but in case the poster still needs this info- One can un-check "close window on delete", and carefully, Go to tools/options/advanced/config editor. The item copied below is #1262 (at least on my system), of more than 1800 settings. mail.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab;true (change to "false" Save setting by entering on OK. Never change more than one setting at a time in config editor unless you are _very sure of what you're doing. This shou

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W4A 2010 Fourth Web Accessibility Challenge - Call for Submissions

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We are delighted to announce the W4A Google Student Awards, which will enable two students to attend W4A 2010, the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, taking place in Raleigh, NC, USA on 26-27 April 2010. Thanks to financial support from Google, these Awards will provide financial support towards travel and accommodation, plus free conference registration, to two students conducting postgraduate research in the web accessibility field and who otherwise would be unable to attend W4A. We now invite submissions from interested students

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I have learned as much as possible about Thunderbird 3.0 from various sources on the web, and have developed a set of JAWS scripts to improve its usability for people who operate with that screen reader, available with an executable installer at http://EmpowermentZone.com/tb_scr.exe or with a zip archive for a manual install (currently needed for Win64) at http://EmpowermentZone.com/tb_scr.zip The following is a set of suggestions that I hope Mozilla developers can implement in the next version of Thunderbird. If it is better to include such suggestions within the Bugzilla tra

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Hi everybody. My name is JO 753 and I'm working on improving literacy by spreading Nooalf, an English based international spelling system. Since English is the defacto international language, and dominates the internet, this applies to accessibility mainly for early grade school children, dyslexics and everybody in non-English speaking countries. The basic problem is that it takes years to attain a minimally functional level of literacy due to the gross disorganization of standard spelling. Bypassing the endless chores and obstacles of English will give new users more immediate, po

Cannot access database from addon

Dear All, I face a problem with establishing a connection to MySQL from add-on, im accessing the database as follows: In the addon there is a button so when i press it, a javascript function is called. after that using a XPCOM component to get the object of a java class, i use this object to call a java function, this function is responsible to establish a connection to a MySQL database, but this java function cannot establish a connection. My XPCOM component is work well, so the problem not in my component. I test the java code using netBeans and the connection is establishe

Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

Howdy folks, Maybe Jamie or someone can tell me which t-bird beta to try for best results with screenreaders..., or should I wait a few weeks for the official release? Not scared of betas, but the release is close is it not? Cheers, Burt Henry Steve Urbach <dragonsclaw@NOTmindspring.com> wrote: block quote You Like Malware? block quote end I must; I'm using Windows.

thunderbird password problem/screenreaders?

I stopped using thunderbird more than a year ago when it seemed not to be able to send passwords to my gmail account anymore. It started with the outgoing, but after a while stopped receiving the pop3 msgs also. I was using the google mail notifier, and tried to get into the config files, but my edditing was of no avail/I did everything on- line for quite a while. N now I have another computer running t-bird 2.23. It started out just fine, but after I tried to install a usenet account along with my gmail it started rejecting my outgoing e-mail: asks for password that it ha

W4A 2010 -- Preliminary Call for Papers

The Seventh International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010) 'Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?' Co-Located with the Nineteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 26-27 April 2010. Important Dates ------------------- * SUBMISSIONS: TECHNICAL and COMMUNICATION Papers: 01 Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) WEB ACCESSIBILITY CHALLENGE: 19th Feb 2010 (Midnight Hawaii Standard Time) More details: <http://www.w4a.info/2010/submissions/dates.shtml> Keynote Speakers ----------

Q4 2009 Accessibility Goals

Hi all, Marco, Alexander, and I have started banging out our platform goals for the final quarter of this year. You can watch them take shape here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/GoalStaging They are still rough, and there is lots of time to influence things. Your input is welcome! (Please follow up on the list of your choosing -- I know not everyone is on both) cheers, David

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Ethan Zuckerman on "Getting my Mac to read to me"

I thought this was an interesting post touching on several accessibility-related subjects, including "temporary disabilities", Bookshare and alternatives, and finding easy ways to convert web content to audio for off-line reading: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/07/30/getting-my-mac-to-read-to-me/ Frank -- Frank Hecker hecker@mozillafoundation.org

Response to WM_GETOBJECT or getting control's properties is too slow on Vista and Windows 7

Hi, I am a QA engineer and I got to automate a plug-in of our product which, of course, is embedded into a web page and could be used in both IE and FF. For this I use Microsoft UI Automation (http:// msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753388.aspx) framework which is working fine in both browsers on Windows XP. However, the problem is that the same version of FireFox on Vista and Windows 7 behaves a little bit differently at least I suspect this. What I have been able to figure out so far is that when the framework tries to map the structure of the tested application (component) it

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Hi, I am trying to use accessibility to fill fields (write) in Firefox and other web browsers. I know that firefox has not implemented the put_accValue method of the IAccessible interface. So i am using IAccessible2 to write into Firefox fields, and more specifically the IAccessibleEditableText object and its replaceText method. My program is a C++ program and i am also using IAccessible2Proxy.dll. Everything works fine with Firefox 3.5 but Firefox 3.0.12 returns an error 0x80004005 when calling replaceText (saying, I guess, that the method is not implemented). A response c

Any updates to support docs for 3.5?

There are 4 articles on support.mozilla.com created by the a11y team: <http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Accessibility?bl=n> <http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Assistive+technology+compatibility?bl=n> <http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+3+with+Screen+Readers+FAQ?bl=n> <http://support.mozilla.com/kb/New+Accessibility+features+in+Firefox+3?bl=n> I just want to remind you about them, just in case they need to be updated for Firefox 3.5.

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NOTES: 14 May 2009 A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension working group

WWW: http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/2009-05-14_A11y_Firebug_Accesibility_Extension_Teleconference Participants * Jon Gunderson, Illinois * David Todd, IBM * Mike Squillace, IBM * Sandy Foltz, Illinois * Hans Hillen, Paciello Group Notes * Sandy has been working with the YSlow interface and has a rule set that works with the YSlow rules engine * We can link rules back to html markup view of the Firebug * The rules results are reported using the YSlow interface * Working on linking the results back to the HTML markup and DOM views

Post-Firefox 3.1 experience improvements?

Have you noticed anything neat accessibility improvement in Firefox since 3.1 was released? Please share it here. cheers, David

Proposed Mozilla accessibility strategy

My apologies for not posting this earlier. I have written and published a proposed high-level strategy for Mozilla-related accessibility efforts: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Strategy Note that this is not a detailed roadmap for future work, and not a firm commitment to fund or perform such work. Rather it is intended to provide a context within within which we can make overall decisions about where we should concentrate funding and effort. This is especially important because our resources are very much finite, and we will need to make decisions about what we sh

Crasher with Jaws

When I visit the following URL with Jaws10.0.1142, and Firefox rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090415 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre the window closes immediately after the page loads. It seems to work fine withJaws and IE, and also with NVDA and Firefox (latest version of NVDA and same FF version as above). URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/neilmccormick/5125923/Isthere-too-much-music.html Can anyone reproduce this behavior? Thanx. -- Rich

Noise for Firefox

Navigational Sounds is ok but it is limited to just a few events. The Noise Firefox add-on is highly customizable and covers many browser events including ones that you add yourself. Noise https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8438 Ken

W4A 2009 - Call for Participation

The Sixth International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2009) 'Web Accessibility for Older Users: Are We There Yet?' Co-Located with the Eighteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), in Madrid, Spain, 20-21 April 2009. Full Programme with Abstracts ------------------- <http://www.w4a.info/2009/programme.shtml> Registration ------------------- <http://www.w4a.info/2009/fees.shtml> ATOM News Feed ------------------- <http://www.w4a.info/updates.xml> Social Media ------------------- We encourage use of the tag #w4a2009 for refere

re: Volunteers Needed to Assess Accessibility of Mozilla Web Site

Can I send this to a couple other lists with blind people on them, or is this just for this list? Have a great day, Alex > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Ken Saunders <accessfirefox@gmail.com >To: dev-accessibility@lists.mozilla.org >Date sent: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:28:12 -0700 (PDT) >Subject: Volunteers Needed to Assess Accessibility of Mozilla Web Site >Hi All, >SpreadFirefox.com will soon be launching a new version of the site (v. >3) with an entirely new layout and we are looking for volunteers to >head over to the staging site and kick the tires (so to speak)

thunderbird 3.0 beta accessibility issues

Using thunderbird 3 beta with jaws 9 i have the following issues: 1) i cannot determine if a message has an attachment from the message list 2) i cannot resize(/move columns via keyboard: especially moving is important because people may need to have some info (read/unread status etc) spoken before anything else, 3) the preview pane with he body of the message is read only, bbut appears there is no caret so cannot scroll with jaws. 4) to reach the preview pane via tab key ihave to traverse a series of buttons;havent found a shortcut to go directly to the body of the mes

Querying ISimpleDOMDocument on MozillaWindowClass returns 0x80004002 with FF 3.0.7 (works fine with 3.0.6 & 3.1B2 !)

Hi all, This little peace of code works fine with Firefox 3.0.6 and Firefox 3.1B2, but does not with Firefox 3.0.7! My aim is to get the current document URL, and w is the handle to the "MozillaWindowClass" class Window : hr=AccessibleObjectFromWindow(tSuivi.w,(DWORD) OBJID_CLIENT,IID_IAccessible,(void**)&pAccessible); if (FAILED(hr)) ... varStart.vt=VT_I4; varStart.lVal=CHILDID_SELF; hr=pAccessible->accNavigate(0x1009,varStart,&varResult); // 0x1009 = NAVRELATION_EMBEDS if (FAILED(hr)) ... if (varResult.vt!=VT_DISPATCH) ... pIDispatch=(IDispatch *)varResult.lVal; if (pID

AGENDA: 5 March 2009 A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension Teelconference

Teleconference Information * Date: Thursday 5 March 2009 * Time: 14:00 UTC (10:00am EST USA) * Phone: 877-421-0030 ode: 998877. Agenda * Develop a statement of the goals for the A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension project http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Accessibility_Extension#Goals * Develop requirements and gaps document for YSlow features that could be used to support the A11y features http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/FBA11YEXT-YSLOW * Provide example rules that would need to be implemented http://wiki

Minefield and menus

Greetings, =20 Is this the right place to ask questions about Minefield accessibility? =20 My goal is to set up AT-SPI event handlers so a user can click on menus and the event handlers can figure out what menu item was clicked. I have tried everything I can think of and had no luck. =20 Currently I listen for the event "Gtk:GtkWidget:button-press-event" which has let me accomplish this goal for all apps I've tried, including Firefox. For Minefield the source field of the AccessibleEvent object passed into the handler is not useful. It has no parent. It's roleName is "redundant

Security Zone Policy on Windows

Hi all, i'am wondering why Mozilla 3 use this "policy thing from hell" Security Zone Policy. One of the reason why i use mozilla is, that it works out of the box. The "Security Zone Policy" is IMHO totally without logic, unusable and worse. So what is the reason for mozilla to use this and annoy millions users that have now the same problems like they had with Internet Explorer. Security by obscurity? Why can't we switch this stuff off from the GUI? Why do we need a "config_about" for that? What happens: I had to changed my Seurity Policy Settings because some "great in

Open Source Education and Open Accessibility

There's rapidly growing interest and activity in Open Source Education and this is a great opportunity use student energy for solving accessibility problems as well as ensuring students get real world knowledge and experience. The Mozilla Foundation have started worked on an Open Education Program that builds on the proven work of David Humphrey at Seneca. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education https://wiki.mozilla.org/Foundation:Planning:Education As David blogs, one of the first things to do is go through bugzilla and clearly mark those bugs that students could work on, and we sho

AGENDA: 12 February 2009 A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension Teleconference

Teleconference Information Date: Thursday 12 February 2009 Time: 14:00 UTC (10:00am EST USA) Phone: 877-421-0030 ode: 998877. Link: http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/FBA11YEXT-TELECON-2009-02-12 Proposed Agenda 1. Event handler enumeration issues in Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448602 * Problems with getting fix in build * Is there anything we can do? 2. Rules structure discussion Sample rule implementation http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php?title=Firebug_Accessibility_Extension_rule_code_ex 3. Rules engine API

Accessible Firefox Feature Idea: Zoom to Screen Width

I am legally blind, but have enough sight to rily on NoSquint and Accessibar over a screen reader. I have a blog that I use partly to advocate for non-screen-reader accessibility. Recenlty I posted the: Call for Firefox Feature: Zoom to Screen Width http://tinyurl.com/cgfycs. Basically, this is the idea (and most of the blog post): The idea is based on a neat iPhone zoom feature. As I noted yesterday, if you double tap on a column on a web page in the iPhone browser, it automatically zooms in to fir the column to the width of the screen. It would be great to be able to do somethin

AGENDA: 5 February 2009 A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension Teleconference

A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension Teleconference Information * Date: Thursday 5 February 2009 * Time: 14:00 UTC (10:00am EST USA) * Phone: 877-421-0030 ode: 998877. Agenda 1. YSlow update 2. Rules structure discussion * Sample rule implementation http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php?title=Firebug_Accessibility_Extension_rule_code_ex Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility Disability Resources and Educational Services Rehabilitation Education Center Room 86 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61821 Voice: (217)

AGENDA: 29 January 2008 A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension Teleconference

Link: http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/FBA11YEXT-TELECON-2009-01-29 Teleconference Information * Date: Thursday 29 January 2009 * Time: 14:00 UTC (10:00am EST USA) * Phone: 877-421-0030 ode: 998877. Agenda 1. YSlow update 2. New extension features 3. Planning Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility Disability Resources and Educational Services Rehabilitation Education Center Room 86 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61821 Voice: (217) 244-5870 WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.u

greasemonkey captcha solver

A pretty good start... needs love to make it powerful: http://ejohn.org/blog/ocr-and-neural-nets-in-javascript/ cheers, David

How to trap URL in mozilla Tabs

Hi, I am writting a application that requires trapping of urls ( In Address Bar of mozilla tabs). Here is what i did I picked the handle of the browser and using IAccessible interface enumerated the child windows to get the Url. in this i found that when we add or remove any tool bar the position of the child window gets changed which has the url so i cant access it through the child count. Please let me know the way to get the url from the address bar. please find the code bellow: public void GetmozillaUrl(IntPtr hWnd) { int childCount = 0; s

Instantiating Firefox A11y on GNOME

Hi all, Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but I think distros are still having a bit of a headache getting Firefox accessibility to start up. I personally am using the workaround Steve gave us here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460926#c4 on my install of Intrepid (Ubuntu). I'd like to see if we can solve this configuration (?) issue on list as it seems it may involve a coordinated effort. In particular it would be great it Brad and folks could connect with Ginn and folks :) If anyone has a recent Firefox (nightly or trunk) with accessibility wor

Event that signals document being loaded?

Greetings, =20 I've read that Gecko fires events document:load-complete, document:reload and document:load-stopped so assistive technology apps can determine when to start examining the AT-SPI tree. Is there an event fired at the front end of the loading process, that is, after an action is performed that causes Gecko to start loading new content into the window? =20 Some actions are likely to cause a new document to load, like clicking a hyperlink. But any onclick handler could decide to load a new document. What is the best way for an assistive app to know: "a new document is b

Fw: nsIDOMWindow::GetDocument() returning null on FF3

=20 Dear all, Is it possible that this attribute returns null even though nothing = wrong is reported by the return error code? NS_FAILED() returns 0. This situation never arosed on FF2 browser, but its starting to happen = with ff3 on some pages.... It seems that DOM Window Objects on FF3 all expose nsIDOMWindow2 = interface. I am accessing GetDocument() through a nsIDOMWindow* pointer.=20 Can anyone please kindly help me on this? Thanks a million in advance for your help Best, Oliveiros

How to determine topmost?

Greetings, =20 I am working on this problem: the user hovers the mouse over a web page displayed in Firefox and presses F8. What is the topmost object under the mouse? To put it another way, if the user clicked the mouse exactly where it is hovering, which object would receive the click event? =20 To get concrete, the web page is http://www.weather.com and the mouse is hovering over the radio button "Site" in the The Weather Channel search box near the top of the web page. My current algorithm yields three items as being contenders for this topmost item: =20 1. The background <

RE: redundant object: What did user click?

=3D Aaron Leventhal wrote: =3D if you can get the coordinates of the mouse then you can use AT-SPI = to get the accessible object at that point. Does that work? No. I tried. I implemented a keyboard listener for the F8 key which gets the current mouse coordinates and tries to figure out the object under the mouse. My current test web page is http://www.weather.com. The object I'm trying to identify is the "Site" radio button in "The Weather Channel" search box near the top. There are 3 radio buttons (l-r): Local Weather, Site, and Web. If I hover the mouse over the "Site" r

NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED

Hi Anybody could help me solve this issue? I have my xpcom c++ extension deployed in FireFox 3.0. Mac OSX and works fine. However I am facing following issue. I am getting following error NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED 0x80040154 when I make following call do_CreateInstance("@mozilla.org/accessibleRetrieval;1", &rv) Same code works fine with MineField 3.0 debug build. Please note that I enabled ac_add_options --enable-accessibility for build. So, looks like FireFox release version does not have accessibility module installed. I confirmed the same by doing about:acces

HTML id attribute: doesn't make it through to at-spi?

Greetings, =20 If an HTML DOM node has an id attribute, is that id value supposed to be available to at-spi? Also is there a definitive document that describes the mapping between the DOM and at-spi? =20 If you look at http://www.weather.com/ at the top you'll see a box for The Weather Channel. In the box there are 3 radio buttons with labels: =20 1. Local Weather 2. Site 3. Web =20 Below is the HTML for these radio buttons. You can see that each radio button has an id=3D attribute. Below the HTML is a dump of the at-spi tree for this area of the displayed web page. We cann

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Greetings, =20 I've got an application that uses at-spi 1.22.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). My current goal is to listen for the right events so when the user clicks the left-mouse-button on a GUI object my application can identify/understand the object that was clicked. =20 For Gtk applications, I've had pretty good success listening for the Gtk:GtkWidget:button-press-event. The event->source object that is delivered to that listener is usually the right one. My application is working pretty well on Gtk applications. =20 When I run Firefox (V3.0.1) on Ubuntu my app does get th

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Hi. This is to announce the release of Specular/Speclenium 0.0.7. Specular is a suite of tools and libraries that allows testing for accessibility from the AT (client) standpoint. Speclenium is a daemon that when used in conjunction with Selenium, provides Selenium tests with a superset of accessibility-related functionality. You could read more about it and get it at: http://monotonous.org/specular Bug fixes and new features ========================== * Added accessible name to the node text in viewdiff. * Better scrolling when arrowing down in viewdiff. * Optimizations

YUI Theatre: Todd Kloots speaks on developing accessible widgets with ARIA; insights, tips and tricks

Enjoy the talk at: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/12/08/video-kloots-aria/ Should be added to codetalks.org as well? Victor

Specular/Speclenium Release 0.0.6

Hi. This is to announce the release of Specular/Speclenium 0.0.6. Specular is a suite of tools and libraries that allows testing for accessibility from the AT (client) standpoint. Speclenium is a daemon that when used in conjunction with Selenium, provides Selenium tests with a superset of accessibility-related functionality. You could read more about it and get it at: http://monotonous.org/specular Bug fixes and new features ========================== * Fixed unicode issues in quick_diff.py. * Updated test suite to match current codetalks examples.

Supernova, HAL and Lunar now support Firefox 3

From http://yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=1&z=3 "Version 10 now supports the Mozilla Firefox Web browser (version 3). Firefox is a free browser that can be downloaded from the Firefox website (external link) and has proved popular with many users Worldwide. Firefox 3 support is supplied in addition to Dolphin's newly re-engineered Internet Explorer support."