Web App Accessibility

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:48 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> * Assume that blind users can use standard desktop apps (like firefox and
> webkit based browsers) to access our web apps as long as the apps provide
> keyboard navigation.
>        - I don't know if this is a reasonable expectation on Fedora.  Need to
> talk to someone who works on accessibility to know if this is a viable option
> for blind users, for a subset that are vision impaired but not totally blind,
> or of no use at all.

The (yet unreleased) GNOME 3.6 release notes have this to say at the moment:
   WebKitGTK+ received a lot of attention and many bug fixes that have
   resulted in a better accessibility support. We are quite pleased with
   the progress thus far towards making content viewed in Web
   compellingly accessible for Orca users.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/release-notes/tree/help/C/a11y-improved-Web-support.page?h=gnome-3-6

So perhaps WebKitGTK+-based browsers in Fedora >= 18 would make this a 
viable option.


-- 
Mathieu