Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Fwd: GNewSense, browsers and Accessibility

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
"Jason Self" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote ..
> 
> > There is a misunderstanding here.  The goal is not just to make
> > Icecat capable of running on gNewSense.  The goal is that gNewSense
> > should come with and install an accessible browser.  Epiphany is
> > not adequate for accessibility.
> > 
> > To present Epiphany as the main browser is not adequate for the
> > accessibility of gNewSense.
> 
> Forwarding to gnewsense-dev to raise the idea of switching the
> default browser.
> 
> There was a thread on the GNU maintainers list about accessibility in
> gNewSense. From what I've been told, Epiphany has zero support
> whereas as Firefox 3.5 (and hence Icecat 3.5) does, although there
> were regressions in 3.6. It's a continuation of [1].

I'm interested by this. I was under the impression that gnome put a lot
of effort into usability and accesability, and epiphany is gnomes browser.
kk

> 
> [1]
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2010-03/msg00152.html


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