Re: firefox for android not accessible

Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:31:31 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Kenny.

You're correct Firefox is not accessible on mobile now.

It's quite important for us to ship accessible browser for Android. It's new
platform for us and we're in investigation phase still. Hopefully the things
will be changed soon.

Thank you.
Alexander.


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Kenny Hitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.  If this is the wrong list for this question, please point me to the
> correct list.
> I've used firefox on my Linux desktop for a while now.  Thanks to firefox,
> I have good web access.
> I've recently started using an Android smart phone.  Google's web browser
> isn't accessible at this time.
> A few days ago, I found a release of firefox for Android.  I installed it
> hoping it would finally give me access to
> the web.  It looks like it has no support for accessibility.  Will this be
> corrected in a future version?
> If not, would someone from mozilla please explain why it won't be made
> accessible?
> I'm available to help get firefox for Android accessible.  I'm not a
> developer, but I am an advanced user.
> I'll be glad to help in any way possible to get web access on Android.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>          Kenny
>
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