Category Archives: GMail

The WAI-ARIA Windows screen reader shootout

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Marco

Firefox 3.5 has been released, and now it’s time to take a look at what features of WAI-ARIA are being supported by which Windows screen reader. Competition is healthy in this market, and two new screen readers have started supporting … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0.7 fixes screen reader users in GMail!

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Marco

As you may or may not have read yet, Firefox 3.0.7 was just released. This security and stability update brings a very important fix for all screen reader users wanting to use GMail. Previously, it was not possible to open … Continue reading →

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ARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Marco

This post continues a series on the implementation of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) in Gmail. On July 30, Orca team lead Willie Walker forwarded a message to the Orca mailing list titled Orca & gmail. The message is originally … Continue reading →

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ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Marco

Google have recently started to put ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) into GMail. This means that ARIA is now getting a lot more exposure than it used to, with GMail being probably one of the most widely used web applications … Continue reading →

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