Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 Beta2 available]

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Hmm, question: I thought firefox  itself implemented ARIA. the real issue is 
how to communicate the page changes and other asynchronous events to the 
screen reader, which generally doesn't listen for those browser events. 
Orca, however, does listen for those events, so why the need for the 
extension (unless your using windows, in which case how does the extension 
communicate arIA info to the screen reader)?


thanx.
-- Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>
To: <d digitaldarragh com>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 Beta2 
available]


> Darragh writes:
> > Fantastic stuff.
> >
> > Makes browsing so much easier!
> >
> > Is there any documentation for this?  I would love to find keyboard
> > commands for accessing the links / forms / image maps / all other
> > elements.
>
> The Gunderson FF3 extension implements a technology approach developed
> in the W3C Web Accessibility's Protocols and Formats Working Group
> called ARIA. One subtask under the PF's work is to try and systemetize
> keyboard shortcuts, though that effort isn't by any means finished, ARIA
> is close to a last call in the W3C standardization process. The ARIA
> specs and best practices docs can be found on the PF Home Page at:
>
> http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
>
>
> Janina
>
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