Project metalmouth (MAJOR UPGRADE) - Version 1.5.0

This week Project metalmouth release a MAJOR upgrade to its current
open source voice browser extension for Chrome.

With the release of 1.5.0 support for nearly 40 new off-screen model
items has been added including many based on new HTML 5 elements like
header, nav, footer, audio, video, etc and elements defined using wai-
aria. Also support of new HTML 5 input types like range has been
included.

The extension can be downloaded from the Project metalmouth web page
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/
bmogbhmnbehfapbmjlaoflagfobahfli) on Google's Chrome Web Store, or as
source code or a packaged .crx file from the Project metalmouth
website http://code.google.com/p/ metalmouth/.

Please take a look and give us your comments - it's open source, free,
constantly being improved and intended to benefit vision impaired and
keyboard users...

Version 1.4.4 now available!

The latest version (v1.4.4) of the Project metalmouth extension can now be installed for free from Project metalmouth extension page on the Chrome Web Store. You can, of course, still install the unpacked version from the source code on the Project metalmouth site.

Interactable off-screen model items are now identified with the word "interactable" - achieved via additional static text descriptions in the relevant off-screen model items.

When on a sub menu the user can now hold the "ESC" key for more than one second to bring focus to the close menu button - for situations where there were large numbers of selectable options.

The interaction area has been tidied, with a new item CP_InteractArea holding the event handlers for the "ESC" hotkey.

The UponDomChange function has been amended to improve performance.

Version 1.4.3 now available!

The latest version (v1.4.3) of the Project metalmouth extension can now be installed for free from Project metalmouth extension page on the Chrome Web Store. You can, of course, still install the unpacked version from the source code on the Project metalmouth site.

Support for two DOM change events (DOMNodeInserted and DOMNodeRemoved) has been

added. The off-screen model is now updated to reflect changes to the DOM caused by nodes being added or removed.

Single select menus are now forced to fire a change event when the value of the related select menu is altered through the Project metalmouth extension.

Minor changes to spoken values - "Go button" changed to "Go".