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Category Archives: Firefox
New in accessibility in Firefox 10
Firefox 10 has just been released. Here is a recap of the things that were fixed in accessibility for this release. First and foremost, we managed to fix a whole range of bugs related to focus reporting. For more details, … Continue reading
Accessibility on the Mac: Progress report Jan 30, 2012
After my blog post about the accessibility of Firefox on Mac OS X ramping up stirred up so much interest (thanks again to everyone who commented!), I thought you’d like to hear a bit about the progress we’ve made since … Continue reading
Would you like to show us what assistive technology you use Firefox with?
For a while now, Firefox has had the ability to collect anonymous usage data. Internally, we call this telemetry. Recently, we also started to incorporate statistics about the way the accessibility features of Firefox are being used. Our newest addition … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, NVDA, Testing
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, ScreenReader, Telemetry
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Accessible Firefox on Mac OS X – things are ramping up!
This is to announce that work on a VoiceOver accessible version of Firefox for the Mac OS X platform has been gaining some attention recently, and that very promising progress has been made in the last month! Hub Figuière, a … Continue reading
If you’re not accessible, you lose sales and reputation
Did I ever mention that I love the community, and I love operating systems with truly inclusive design?! Well, now you know! Here’s a little story that took place in the last half hour: I am looking for an RSS … Continue reading
What’s new in Accessibility in Firefox 8.0
The newest update to Firefox has just been released to the public, and it’s that time again where we look at the user-facing and facing assistive technologies changes in this Firefox release. If not otherwise noted, these changes apply to … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, AssistiveTechnology, Firefox, JAWS, NVDA, WhatsNew, Window-Eyes
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Reworked accessibility focus handling now in Firefox nightly builds
In the nightly Firefox builds, which are already at version 10.0a1, a big refactoring patch was checked in mid of last week that reworks how the accessibility code handles focus changes and setting of the focus and its associated states … Continue reading
Firefox 7 is released, new features in accessibility
Firefox Update 7 has just hit the net, and while it’s still hot, I wanted to share a few items specific to accessibility that are included. First and foremost, we participated in the improvements to memory usage and speed. More … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, Firefox7, fx7, Release
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What’s new in accessibility in Firefox 6
On Friday May 27, a bigger update was offered to everyone on the Aurora channel that brought them up to a revision 6 Firefox. As this was a bigger update, it is time to also point out the new stuff … Continue reading
Firefox 6: html:progress element accessibility
Recently, Mounir landed support for the HTML5 progress element on the Mozilla development branch (AKA “Nightly” channel). A few days later, after a concerted effort and another episode of “Marco and C++ are only partially good friends” , accessibility support … Continue reading
Mozilla is launching the Aurora channel, bringing accessibility features to you more rapidly!
As was just posted on the Mozilla blog, Firefox is moving to a more rapid release cycle from now on. This also means that accessibility features and fixes will be delivered to users more rapidly than in the past. And … Continue reading
Firefox 4 is here!
Firefox 4 has finally hit the release channels and is available for download immediately! This is a major update that brings a lot of new features and enhancements as well as loads of stability and performance fixes to your browsing … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Mozilla, QA
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, fx4, Release
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The WebVisum extension needs you!
This is a shout-out to all interested extension developers who have some time to donate to the WebVisum extension project. As you can read in my review of the extension, it is one of the most important extensions for blind … Continue reading
First time driver: A critical fix for Firefox 4.0Beta11
This already happened a while ago, but I just now found time to blog about it. It was during preparation of Firefox 4.0Beta11 that I found a critical accessibility issue while the second build candidate was already in testing. The … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, QA, Testing
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, ReleaseDriving, ReleaseEngineering, Testing
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New accessibility support for HTML5 elements and attributes
In the nightly builds starting November 9th, 2010, there are some HTML5 elements and attributes newly supported by the accessibility APIs. This will be in Firefox 4.0. Landmark elements mapped to WAI-ARIA landmark roles We are mapping the following HTML5 … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, HTML5, Landmark
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New in Accessibility in Firefox 4.0
The below is a preliminary recap of the new features in accessibility for the upcoming release of Firefox 4.0. API support Most of the changes are under-the-hood changes that do not have API changes as a consequence. There is one … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Mozilla, NVDA, Orca
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, Panorama, PinnedTabs
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Roundup: What is the Mozilla Accessibility Team working on?
Well, it’s been a while since I posted here I’m afraid. The reason was not an outbreak of laziness, but on the contrary the fact that the accessibility team at Mozilla is alive and kickin’, and working on the next … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Thunderbird
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, Instantbird, Thunderbird
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CSUN 2010 recap
From March 22 to 27, the 5th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference took place at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California. It is most commonly referred to as CSUN 2010. The Mozilla Foundation had … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Apple, ARIA, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, NVDA, Orca, Thunderbird
Tagged Accessibility, CSUN2010
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New accessibility features in Firefox 3.6
Firefox 3.6 is just around the corner, and despite all the birthday celebrations, and the looking back that comes with it naturally, I think it is also time to look ahead. So here’s a roundup of what accessibility features will … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox
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