Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

On Oct 27, 9:00 pm, Wayne Mery <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 5:58 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
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> > On Oct 27, 2:16 am, bando?ers<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
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> >> Alexander Surkov escribió:
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> >>> On Oct 25, 2:05 pm, bando?ers<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >>>> ... 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?
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> >>>> Burt Henry
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> >>> Hi.
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> >>> I assume you talk about Firefox.
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> >> You assume wrong my friend, asking about Thunderbird.  No access probs
> >> with FF, but thanks.
> >>    les)>  of firefox and probably they won't be. I would guess release version
> >>> of Firefox 3.7 isn't expected really soon (at least it has alpha
> >>> status still).
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> >> The release of TB rc is right around the corner, and so I  guess the
> >> official ver is not far behind.
> >> Burt H.
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> > Ok, then it's preferable to use Thunderbird based on Gecko 1.9.3.
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> > Alex.
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> By which, you mean Thunderbird trunk?  In terms of Thunderbird
> accessibility, why use trunk/Gecko 1.9.3? (Note, it is not clear what
> version of Gecko will be used for what is being referred to as TB 3.next
> - it might be 1.9.2, 1.9.3, or something else unforseen)
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> TB3.0 has two open accessibility blockers -
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518337
>  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516680
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> FWIW, all TB accessibility bugshttp://tinyurl.com/yhmwazx


Prior to yesterday it was correct because major accessible table
patches were landed on Gecko 1.9.3 only (thunderbird uses xul:tree
which is exposed as accessible table to AT). But yesterday all these
patches were landed on Gecko 1.9.2. So latest thunderbird based on
this version of Gecko should be great for testing I think.

Alex.