AT vendors (Re: Nightly testers, stay on the 27th of August...)

David Bolter <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:21:19 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  Hi All,

Just a heads up I blogged about this issue here:

http://mindforks.blogspot.com/2010/09/firefox-4-beta-at-vendor-alert.html

If you have a product affected by this we want to hear from you.

cheers,
David
On 30/08/10 4:53 AM, Marco Zehe wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> If there are people on this list using the nightly builds with a 
> screen reader (a program that reads web pages out loud to the blind) 
> on Windows, please be aware that the nightly builds starting August 
> 28, 2010, are currently broken when it comes to creating virtual 
> buffers. Basic Microsoft Active Accessibility is working.
>
> The reason is the landing of Bug 130078 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130078>, which caused 
> the accessibility API support to regress. See bug 591874 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591874> for the 
> discussion and to observe the development of a fix.
>
> If you want to continue testing the nightly builds, stay on the August 
> 27, 2010 build for now. I will let this list know when the bug has 
> been fixed and it is safe again to use the latest and greatest.
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
>
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