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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Fwd: GNewSense, browsers and Accessibility
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Karl Goetz |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Fwd: GNewSense, browsers and Accessibility |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:04:33 +0930 |
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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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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