293360 - VoiceOver support under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger needed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157209

(Firefox :: Disability Access, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Clark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Firefox requires specific testing and optimization for VoiceOver, the screen
reader built into Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Currently Firefox pretty much does not
work with VoiceOver (certainly compared to Safari).

* Preferences window cannot be read even with the Interact with Item keystroke,
Ctrl-Option-Shift-downarrow.

* Cannot move VoiceOver cursor off the address field (called "scrollbar").

* When manually clicking inside Web content to reposition focus, which an actual
blind person would be unlikely to do, reading starts at a tiny, ~15-px-wide bar
along the left edge of the Web area (also "scrollbar"), where you remain
trapped, apparently forever.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start VoiceOver on Tiger (Command-F5).
2. Using the documented keystrokes, attempt to use Firefox.
Actual Results:  
As listed above.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to move at will, use Preferences, and read Web content unhindered.

Camino, Thunderbird, and Mozilla should also be compatible with VoiceOver.
Actually, any Mac OS application from the Foundation should be.

Since VO does not use an API that is external to the browser (like MSAA) but
uses OS-level functions, it may be easier to provide VO compatibility than, say,
Jaws or Window-Eyes compatibility on Windows.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157209 ***