firefox is accessible! [Fwd: Re: dangers of using clipboard when online??]
Samuel Proulx
and thunderbird work with screen readers? The type of fud shown below
is really, really common in the blind community. If flaming and fud is
your thing, feel free to look in on the rest of this stupid discussion.
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And how exactly do you propose to use a browser which is poorly
supported by
screenreaders?
We are talking blind here, believe me, if I had all the money in the world
and a screenreader existed that worked reliably with that browser, I'd do
so, most of us do not have that luxury.
Brian
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"Samuel Proulx" <sam...@interfree.ca> wrote in message
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> Brian Gaff wrote:
>> At the moment, its safer from this point of view, it seems to use
win 98,
>> as
>> none of the Active X controls on there seem to have this function
> Sure, assuming you want to keep using IE5, not get any security fixes at
> all, and leave your system open to hundreds of other serious issues that
> got fixed in XP. What are you doing using Internet Explorer, anyway? It
> doesn't support any web standards (xhtml 1.1, css, and xforms come to
> mind). If we as blind people are going to complain about accessibility
> standards not being met, it is incumbent upon us to use a browser that
> actually respects the web standards that have been put in place to
try and
> ensure some sort of universal accessibility. Thus far, the only
option is
> firefox (www.getfirefox.com). If you're still using Internet Explorer,
> not only do you have serious security problems, but any developer who
> writes pages that are standards compliant has to detect the use of IE
and
> specifically feed it non compliant pages, just to make them display at
> all.
>
>
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> Samuel Proulx
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> wonderful, magical animal.
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