Comment 63 for bug 857153
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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.