[nvda] Re: Google Chrome still not accessible after almost two years

this is still OtT, but yes, Google has a reason to develop a browser,(BTW-when's the last time anyone payed for a browser outright anyway?)(OK, I guess we do when we buy a new version of windows, but some of us don't do that more than a few times in a life...lol) it's called the cloud. Chrome is part of an overall project to get ppl to do much of their work: spread sheets, word processing/google.docs, and much more some where on the web instead of all on their hard-drive. You don't have to like this, but it is a good solution for many, and chrome is partly designed to integrate the browser as a platform,much as we view an OS, not just a tool to look at web-sites. There are lots of good articles on this all over the web, but please ppl let's stop using this list as a place for any and all rants. A mini rant is allowed when tacked on to the end of an NVDA related msg, but let's try and not take whole threads OT so often. 
Burt

On 6/10/2010 10:43 chela, List account Brians (downstairs) wrote:

Half the problem is that nobody considers it until later on in
development by which time the application is broken and fixing it will
be very hard.

I'm just a little suspicious of Chrome myself, Google are data pimps and
would they really make a free browser out of the kindness of their
hearts. What browsing trend recording is going on inside their browser?


Can one disable adverts with a plug in I wonder, as you can on
seemonkey, firefox, and IE with add ons?

Brian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:51 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: Google Chrome still not accessible after almost two
years



Hi,

Before we all go with sticks and stones to Google, here's two tweets
Jamie sent yesterday regarding this:

<jcsteh> False alarm: Google just disabled Chrome renderer
accessibility again due to it breaking tests. :( I'm sure they'll try
again, though.

<jcsteh> Even once enabled by default (can already enable on command
line), work still required in screen readers to get virtual buffers in
Chrome.

Don't worry - there are enough accessibility people keeping an eye on
Google that they're not going to get away with ditching accessibility.

Geoff.

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