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

burt henry <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Organization bando?ers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
thanks for the ftp link/haven't installed anything yet, but it's nice to 
have.  I'll probably wait for the RC.
Burt

On 10/31/2009 5:30 café, Wayne Mery wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 5:49 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 9:00 pm, Wayne Mery<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 10/27/2009 5:58 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Oct 27, 2:16 am, bando?ers<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>>> Alexander Surkov escribió:
>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> Burt Henry
>>>
>>>>>> Hi.
>>>
>>>>>> I assume you talk about Firefox.
>>>
>>>>> 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).
>>>
>>>>> The release of TB rc is right around the corner, and so I guess the
>>>>> official ver is not far behind.
>>>>> Burt H.
>>>
>>>> Ok, then it's preferable to use Thunderbird based on Gecko 1.9.3.
>>>
>>>> Alex.
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> FWIW, all TB accessibility bugs http://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.
>
> So that would be trunk
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/
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