Milestone Basic control of Firefox delivered to Mozilla

After several false starts and a long delay due to problems with using the Mozilla platform and then IBM dropping LSR we have a new approach and so a new Milestone. The technology has been decided as Gnome/GTK on Linux using Python, pyatspi (AT/SPI) and librsvg (SVG).

A minimal functionality system that exhibits control of Firefox 3.0. It needs to demonstrate all the techniques that will used but should not be feature complete or polished.

Feature analysis:

• Switch User operation of Firefox 3.0 with OSK (and possibly in app selection) for basic browsing.
• Simple OSK declared in SVG. Only 2 switch step scanning offered (sw1 = next, sw2 = action).
• Control of Firefox 3.0 using AT/SPI via pyatspi (using accerciser for exploration).
• Basic switch access using USB switch and/or numeric keys. Pointer access also useful.
• OSK to be easy to describe (using Inkscape eventually in future phases).
• Easily extended to become a framework in future phases.
• Minimal dependence on GTK/Gnome/Linux/AT/SPI as we want to port to Windows.

To be delivered to Mozilla (Aaron Leventhal) as final deliverable of Grant.