2006-11-22

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Mozilla OSK project grant
Aaron Leventhal (on behalf of Michael Curran) mentiond that there is now an NVDA email list you can join if you wish to keep up to date with the latest changes, or if you wish to discuss new features or talk with other NVDA users.

To join, send a blank email with subscribe in the subject field to:

[email protected] (Click here to view the original post and unmask the e-mail address)

Michael would like to thank stormDragon for setting this up. Click here for more details.

New mailing list for NVDA
Steve Lee was pleased to announce that the Mozilla Foundation has approved a grant spearheaded by himself and Aaron Leventhal for "Improved Switch Access to Firefox". He expressed his gratitude and thanks everyone for being supportive during and after the Summit. Click here for more details.

IDispatch support for JAWS scripting needed
Aaron Leventhal stated that currently there is no IDispatch support for IAccessible's in Mozilla.

If anyone has experience with these issues, and is comfortable helping out in the mozilla/accessible

He stated that he almost had it working a couple of years ago. The

bug has a very old patch which will no longer be easy to apply but may provide clues as to where they are going wrong.

For more information click here.

Image Labelling for Blind Help Machines

Frank Hecker brought up a valid discussion about the problem of getting images tagged for use by screen.
He cited some valuable resources on the topic courtesy of the Washington Post. Read the article here

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