Category Archives: Firefox

Advancements in the accessibility of Facebook

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Marco

In December 2011, I wrote this overview of the accessibility of social network sites and apps, and I had to paint a rather sad picture about most of the accessibility experiences. As time went by, some things improved here and there, … Continue reading →

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Support for TalkBack’s Jelly Bean Explore By Touch now in Firefox for Android nightlies

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Marco

This is just a quick shout-out to you early adopters that, as of the August 22, 2012 nightly build of Firefox for Android, support for Explore By Touch, Jelly Bean style, has landed and is now working. If you use … Continue reading →

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Firefox for Android Nightly builds now with Explore By Touch

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Marco

As of the June 28, 2012 build of Firefox for Android nightly builds, the Explore By Touch feature of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of TalkBack is supported in web content in addition to the already supported browser user interface. … Continue reading →

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How to get WebVisum working again

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Marco

Update: As of some time this lunch time in Europe, WebVisum is back in full working business. The instructions to edit one’s hosts file to point to the IP address for the WebVisum service directly has, therefore, been removed from … Continue reading →

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Quick Navigation keys now in nightly builds of Firefox native for Android

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Marco

Yes, you heard correctly! Accessible Firefox for Android nightly builds, as of June 13, have quick navigation keys that those who are blind are most likely familiar with from the desktop screen reader world! In short, these are single letter … Continue reading →

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First round of accessibility support for Android in mobile Firefox

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Marco

Lots of exciting stuff happening at Mozilla these days! The accessibility team is ramping up its efforts on multiple fronts. I am pleased to announce that mobile Firefox, code-named Fennec, nightly builds now have a first implementation of accessibility for … Continue reading →

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Initial VoiceOver support now in Firefox nightly builds for Mac OS X

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Marco

Yes, many of you have been waiting for this to happen, and now it’s finally there! From the April 30, 2012 Nightly build onwards, Firefox for the Mac comes with VoiceOver support turned on by default. All you have to … Continue reading →

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Progress on Mac accessibility work in Firefox

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Marco

This is an update for all who are interested in our Mac accessibility implementation. After I blogged about this topic last time, we entered into a bit of a rough time having to do with the text interface of the … Continue reading →

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New in accessibility in Firefox 10

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Marco

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 →

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Accessibility on the Mac: Progress report Jan 30, 2012

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Marco

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 →

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Would you like to show us what assistive technology you use Firefox with?

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Marco

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 →

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Accessible Firefox on Mac OS X – things are ramping up!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Marco

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 →

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If you’re not accessible, you lose sales and reputation

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Marco

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 →

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What’s new in Accessibility in Firefox 8.0

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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Reworked accessibility focus handling now in Firefox nightly builds

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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Firefox 7 is released, new features in accessibility

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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What’s new in accessibility in Firefox 6

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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Firefox 6: html:progress element accessibility

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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Mozilla is launching the Aurora channel, bringing accessibility features to you more rapidly!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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Firefox 4 is here!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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