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* Big thanks to MarcoZ for providing a lot of this information | |||
=== Summary === | |||
The sad, but true, story is that there is no consistent accessibility | The sad, but true, story is that there is no consistent accessibility | ||
story when it comes to mobile phone accessibility. Currently, there are | story when it comes to mobile phone accessibility. Currently, there are | ||
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MobileSpeak and comes from www.codefactory.es. They also provide a | MobileSpeak and comes from www.codefactory.es. They also provide a | ||
screen reader for Windows Mobile. | screen reader for Windows Mobile. | ||
=== What Firefox Does === | |||
On Windows, Linux, and hopefully Mac soon, Firefox maps its internals to | |||
the native accessibility APIs. Look at http://www.mozilla.org/access for | |||
more details and links to MDC articles. | |||
Basically, there is an own module in Gecko that takes care of mapping | |||
HTML and XUL content to these native accessibility APIs. | |||
=== Mobile Screen Readers === | |||
On Symbian, the screen readers inject some JavaScript into the mobile | On Symbian, the screen readers inject some JavaScript into the mobile | ||
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I don't know. It has to appear in GNOME first. | I don't know. It has to appear in GNOME first. | ||
=== What We Can Do === | |||
So for now, I guess the best we can do for Fennec is to make sure | So for now, I guess the best we can do for Fennec is to make sure | ||
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screen. | screen. | ||
=== Test Cases === | |||
=== Tools === | |||
=== Contacts === | |||
So for mobile: I have made connection to the Talks developers, and | |||
they're interested in making Fennec accessible on Symbian 60 once it | |||
becomes available there. I do not have any good contacts to CodeFactory | |||
in Spain yet, to also tackle Windows Mobile accessibility. | |||