- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:21:05 -0400
- To: <tina@elfi.org>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
actually, there are many situations in which a scren reader user may be using a shared system but let's put that asside for the moment and talk about the original question which was pointing out the fact that the profile box did not work with a screen reader. This should be over come not swept asside. As to who is talking to who, I think when the dust settles on this one, it should be fairly accessible although I cannot understand why we had a fairly accessible netscape through 4.75 and now suddenly the wheel is being re-invented. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Marie Holmboe" <tina@elfi.elfi.org> To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:27 PM Subject: Re: netscape 6.1 and mozilla 0.9.3 On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:45:57PM -0400, Demonpenta2@aol.com wrote: > > I haven't checked every possible problem or its resolution, however the > > profile selection seems to be completely unusable via jaws and this will > > exclude blind users, I believe, as well as my clients. > > Oh. beautiful....Y'know, this brings up a huge thought...Does anyone > bother to talk to Hunter-Joyce/Freedom Scientific about these things? I've > been noticing a LOT of things like this, where it seems like a little input > from the developers could go a long way. Hang on for a moment. I've not tested this in Netscape, but in Mozilla 0.9.3 (which is the latest stable release), the command mozilla -P profilename starts the browser without prompting for a profile. This should solve the described problem, yes ? I am making the less-than-ideal assumption here that a visually impaired user is not sharing her/his machine with too many other people in the same situation, and in such a case defaulting the profile with -P should work. -- - Tina Holmboe
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