Monthly Archives: July 2008

Some random thoughts

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Marco

I’m currently attending the Mozilla 2008 summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Among all the good sessions we’re having, there are a couple that I definitely want to blog more about over the course of the next few days, but … Continue reading →

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Support for text attributes and spell checking is coming in Firefox 3.1!

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Marco

For those of you on the bleeding edge, namely on the Firefox 3.1a1pre nightly builds, the Friday’s nightly build will include one big new feature in accessibility for 3.1: Text attributes and spell checking support! This means that assistive technologies … Continue reading →

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Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role “alert”

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last Easy ARIA tip. But I’m hoping that this one will find you all excited and willing to play with it some more! The problem: You have a … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6. This version brings with it a number of accessibility enhancements. One thing you might have noticed already is that there is now a default language set. Default English blogs should now always … Continue reading →

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Review of the WebVisum Firefox extension

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Marco

Today, a post announcing the WebVisum Firefox extension was posted to the mozilla.dev.accessibility newsgroup. The things talked about in this post and on the WebVisum homepage almost sound too good to be true. Among the features are: Ability to tag … Continue reading →

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Extension developers: 5 things to make your extension more accessible

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Marco

After my first reach out to extension developers, Aaron and I have brainstormed and come up with the 5 most common things you as an extension developer should consider to make your extension more accessible. Here’s what we came up … Continue reading →

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