The everything else widget dynamically has the right behavior, based on its role. The widgets that are now explicitly in place are: checkbox, radiobutton, button, textfield, and the generic 'everything else'-widget. This was showcased on the Mozilla Accessibility Hackfest in Boston, October, 2006. The main Google search page can also be used, to some extent, barring performance problems (read below). This is what I have been using as a testcase for demonstration. It's a proof that these items are now 'visible' to the OS, although they need to be further worked on to also be better comprehensible for any application using the Universal Access APIs.Ī simple XUL test document featuring buttons, textfields, checkboxes and radiobuttons can be successfully used and spoken in VoiceOver. This is the first major step towards accessibility on mac. One can inspect and see the accessible objects of a whole web page in debug tools such as Accessibility Inspector.app. 2.2.4 Changing web pages makes ATs confusedĬurrent state of Mac Accessibility, as of November, 2006įirefox can now display all mozilla accessible objects through the mac accessibility APIs.2.2.3 Extension manager restart confuses the OS.2.2 Details about VoiceOver and OS X issues.2.1 The 1 minute-version of the TODO list.1 Current state of Mac Accessibility, as of November, 2006.

Mac accessibility inspector