Re: Mozilla successes.

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Norman,

As you surmise, it is not the browser's fault.  We've tracked down the bug to 
the text field being marked as read-only (something I suspect our automated 
web page accessibility test tools didn't catch).  We're working on fixing that 
in our web site now...

A valid question is whether Mozilla should attempt to override such a 
statement when in caret navigation mode.  Thoughts?


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Norman B. Robinson wrote:
> I've had the same problem with the Sun JDK under Windows using JAWS for 
> Windows. I don't think it is the browser's fault.
>
> -Norman
>
> Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
>
> > Hello, listers.
> > Last week I downloaded the source tarball for the Sun Mozilla 
> > accessibility
> > build dated 10/14/2004, and compiled it on a fresh Fedora Core 2 system
> > running gnopernicus 0.8.1 and Gnome 2.6.
> > I am very glad to say those of you working on this build of mozilla are
> > doing a good job with the carot browsing mode and accessibility in 
> > general.
> > I was able to successfully navigate my own web site, switch around from
> > frame to frame, fill out forms, and do a few downloads which means 
> > mozilla
> > is now almost ready for some serious testing from the VI Linux comunity.
> > The only major problem I had was when I attempted to download the Sun jdk
> > 1.5.0. Things were going fine until the license agreement on the Sun web
> > site popped up and for the life of me I could not get mozilla to find 
> > the I
> > accept check box and the continue button to proceed to the download area.
> > In fact it would not even read the license agreement at all. All it would
> > say was multiline text everyline I was on despite I could tell the 
> > carot was
> > in the text of the license agreement.
> > Over all, I think mozilla is coming along nicely. Access isn't 
> > perfect, but
> > I can easily see once  a few problems are worked out like the Sun license
> > agreement page work without problems dropping Internet Explorer 
> > forever and
> > attaching myself to the Gnome desktop for browsing. I like Mozilla that
> > much, and I am very impressed.
> >
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