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[Nolan Darilek <nolan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you freakin' serious?!?

I was just thinking the other day about how Mozilla didn't seem to care
much about Firefox Linux accessibility. As a blind Android developer and
user, I find it difficult to impossible to use any of the advanced
features on Google's web-based market. Similarly, Google Docs and other
products are still very inaccessible under Linux, even with their screen
reader modifications turned on.

In Firefox 9, I now discover that I can't reliably move focus. Focus
gets stuck on a variety of page elements, just as it did in earlier
versions. This is clearly a regression, and a huge one at that.

And now I learn that Firefox will remain inaccessible on default GNOME 3
installations for the next four and a half months?

"File bugs on your issues" is all well and good if I feel like they're
cared about, but I don't. And we're now clearly seeing how a critical
accessibility fix, which is already available on some Linux versions, is
being pushed back on because apparently no accessibility for some users
is better than the likelihood that said accessibility might not work
completely.

It's interesting how Mozilla is about choice, yet under Linux I have
none. As soon as Chrome/Chromium or any other WebKit browser becomes a
viable option, I intend to exercise choice and pick another non-Mozilla
browser so I can have a web experience that isn't bad on any advanced
application. I keep up with Planet Mozilla and other news sources, and
lots of those messages just seem empty and meaningless when I get news
like this.

Let's get this in sooner, OK? And let's show people like me how Mozilla
truly does care about its users who have chosen free operating systems.
As it stands, Firefox loses accessibility ground steadily, and that
Mozilla categorizes doing the right thing as a reward rather than a
necessity is a pretty big sign that I'd better start using and
advocating for another browser as soon as I am free to do so. It sucks
when an organization gets too big to care that a significant number of
users can't use their product at all.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857153

Title:
  Needs to get accessibility settings from GSettings

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Fix Released
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “firefox” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Committed
Status in “firefox” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Luke mentioned to me in Dublin that the screen reader doesn't work
  with Firefox when accessibility is enabled. This is because Firefox is
  still using GConf to check if accessibility is enabled, when it really
  needs to be using GSettings. I've just realized this is still the
  case, so I assume that the screen reader still won't work by default

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