mozilla.dev.accessibility Google Group

W4A 2010 - First Call for Papers

yesil...@cs.man.ac.uk (Yeliz Yesilada) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:01:20 UT

The Seventh International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
Accessibility (W4A 2010)
'Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?'
Co-Located with the Nineteenth International World Wide Web Conference
(WWW2010), in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 26-27 April 2010.
Important Dates
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Cannot access database from addon

bfar...@gmail.com (Bilal Farraj) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:05:50 UT

Dear All,
I face a problem with establishing a connection to MySQL from add-on,
im accessing the database as follows:
In the addon there is a button so when i press it, a javascript
function is called.
after that using a XPCOM component to get the object of a java class,
i use this object to call a java function, this function is

(IVÁN): Happy Veterans Day / Feliz día de los Veteranos...

valare...@hotmail.com (IVAN VALAREZO) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 23:46:24 UT

Sábado, 07 de noviembre, año 2009 de Nuestro Salvador
Jesucristo, Guayaquil, Ecuador - Iberoamérica
(Cartas del cielo son escritas por Iván Valarezo)
(Happy Veterans Day / Feliz día de los Veteranos, le deseamos
de todo corazón a cada hombre y mujer (vivo o fallecido) con
cada una de sus familias, de los que han servido fielmente en

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

burt1ib...@gmail.com (burt henry) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 17:15:33 UT

thanks for the ftp link/haven't installed anything yet, but it's nice to
have. I'll probably wait for the RC.
Burt

Re: Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

michael.peder...@sun.com (Mike Pedersen) — Mon, 11 Nov 2009 19:49:02 UT

Hi Ana,
What we would like here is the following:
If you could allow the user to tab into the headers probably one tab
stop before the message list would be great.
When the user has tabbed to the headers they should be able to right and
left arrow between them and press enter or space to perform the allowed

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

vseer...@lehigh.edu (Wayne Mery) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:30:28 UT

So that would be trunk
[link]

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

surkov.alexan...@gmail.com (Alexander Surkov) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 09:49:47 UT

Prior to yesterday it was correct because major accessible table
patches were landed on Gecko 1.9.3 only (thunderbird uses xul:tree
which is exposed as accessible table to AT). But yesterday all these
patches were landed on Gecko 1.9.2. So latest thunderbird based on
this version of Gecko should be great for testing I think.

Re: Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

ana.von.kl...@sun.com (Ana von Klopp) — Fri, 10 Oct 2009 08:56:34 UT

Hi Mike,
thanks!
I'm also wondering specifically about getting to some actions that are
available by clicking on the header. For example, what if clicking on
the header resorts the mail grid, or if clicking on a checkbox selects
all messages.
Ana

Re: Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

david.bol...@gmail.com (David Bolter) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 20:07:52 UT

Hi Ana,
Right the column headers in the message list pane of Thunderbird do not
follow this style guide suggestion. Instead Thunderbird provides access
to the mouse+header functions in the "View" menu (at least in
Thunderbird 3 beta, I can't confirm Thunderbird 2).
That said, if you can make a compelling case for adding direct keyboard

Re: Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

michael.peder...@sun.com (Mike Pedersen) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 18:49:36 UT

Hi Ana, normally the screen reader user doesn't want to move into the
header the behavior they expect is as follows:
The user should be able to left and right arrow between the cells in the
table. When he/she does this the screen reader will look at the header
above the cell with focus to determine which column has focus.

Keyboard Navigation Question - Mail Grid Headers

ana.von.kl...@sun.com (Ana von Klopp) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 16:08:16 UT

Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how to provide access to grid headers in a mail
grid via keyboard navigation.
When I read the instructions for a grid in
[link]
the suggestion is that tabbing into the grid should land on the first
cell, typically the grid header. However, for the email scenario, the

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

vseer...@lehigh.edu (Wayne Mery) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 13:00:22 UT

By which, you mean Thunderbird trunk? In terms of Thunderbird
accessibility, why use trunk/Gecko 1.9.3? (Note, it is not clear what
version of Gecko will be used for what is being referred to as TB 3.next
- it might be 1.9.2, 1.9.3, or something else unforseen)
TB3.0 has two open accessibility blockers -

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

surkov.alexan...@gmail.com (Alexander Surkov) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 09:58:53 UT

Ok, then it's preferable to use Thunderbird based on Gecko 1.9.3.
Alex.

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

burt1ib...@gmail.com (bando?ers) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 18:16:10 UT

Hi,
Alexander Surkov escribió:
...
You assume wrong my friend, asking about Thunderbird. No access probs
with FF, but thanks.
les)
The release of TB rc is right around the corner, and so I guess the
official ver is not far behind.
Burt H.

Re: Which betta should I try for best screenreader support?

surkov.alexan...@gmail.com (Alexander Surkov) — Mon, 10 Oct 2009 01:16:29 UT

Hi.
I assume you talk about Firefox. I think you should try trunk version
of Firefox 3.7 ([link]
nightly/). There is couple of improvements there (especially it
concerns to accessible tables) which aren't presented in other version
of firefox and probably they won't be. I would guess release version