accessible Mozilla wasRe: some gnopernicus user questions
- From: Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt knology net>
- To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
- Subject: accessible Mozilla wasRe: some gnopernicus user questions
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:35:33 -0500
Oops, forgot to cc the list on my reply.
The project websight only provides a link for downloading Redhat binary
tar balls. They don't mention anything about getting the CVS Mozilla and
enabling options. I'll go get the Mozilla CVS and see what I can do.
Kenny
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:13:06PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Kenny:
>
> I am not sure I understand what you mean by "they don't provide the
> source code". I am pretty certain all the sources for accessible
> Mozilla are in the Mozilla "trunk" CVS, but you must turn on some
> build-time options in order to create the gtk2 + atk version.
>
> This may be poorly documented or perhaps not documented at all, in which
> case the lack of information is indeed a bug or at least an RFE.
>
> regards,
>
> - Bill
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:07, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi. At this point, I can't use the Mozilla build. For some reason,
> > they don't provide the source code.
> > All I can find are tar balls of binary files for several versions of
> > Redhat. I don't run Redhat, so these files are useless to me. Should I
> > consider this a bug?
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:02:52PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > > Hi Kenny:
> > >
> > > With respect to navigation and reading text in gnopernicus, you can use
> > > 'logical review mode' as well as "flat review" mode. In logical review
> > > mode you can walk the user interface hierarchy and explore the
> > > individual elements, which can help you discover useful and/or
> > > interesting components in some applications. Ideally applications will
> > > expose their useful functionality without requiring this kind of
> > > exploration, i.e. via keyboard navigation alone, but logical review can
> > > be a useful technique.
> > >
> > > As for the Mozilla build Adi referred you to - please bear in mind that
> > > the ATK/at-spi support in the current Mozilla builds is not considered
> > > complete, so please bear that in mind when assessing it. Bug reports
> > > are very welcome however. You could send them to either the
> > > bugzilla.mozilla.org site or to the mozilla-accessibility mozilla org
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > > > Use Mozilla, which you can take from:
> > > > > http://ftp24moz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla/accessibility/
> > > > >
> > > > That sight only has binary files for Redhat. I use Debian. Where can I
> > > > get the source code or a Redhat RPM? I would prefer source, but I can
> > > > use alien to convert a RPM to a deb file.
> > > >
> > > > Kenny
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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