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Category Archives: Mobile
Switching to Android full-time – an experiment
A few weeks ago, I decided to conduct an experiment. I wanted to determine if Android 4.2.2 “Jelly Bean” was finally ready for me to switch to full-time, away from an iPhone. Background I’ve been an iPhone user for four … Continue reading
Advanced ARIA tip #1: Tabs in web apps
The following article will describe how to properly create accessible tabs in web apps. This is important for both mobile and desktop web applications. Tabs are not native to HTML5, so if you simulate them, you’ll probably use other markup … Continue reading
Why do native mobile apps seem to win all the time?
Twitter is often a place of small, but thought-provoking bits of information or personal impression. Just today, Mick Curran, one of the NVDA core developers, tweeted this: Just used new iPhone app from @crust_pizza to order my dinner. Quite blindy … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile
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My recap of the Accessibility Day 2012 in Vienna, Austria
On October 25, I took part in the 2012 Accessibility Day A-Tag 2012, in Vienna, Austria. This semi-annual event brings together people of various technology fields and organisations as well as end users with disabilities to exchange, share, and get … Continue reading
Support for TalkBack’s Jelly Bean Explore By Touch now in Firefox for Android nightlies
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
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, ExploreByTouch, Firefox, JellyBean, TalkBack
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Firefox for Android Nightly builds now with Explore By Touch
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
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, ExploreByTouch, Firefox, TalkBack
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Accessibility in Firefox for Android – Some more technical details
In my previous blog post, I focused on the user-facing aspects of the new accessibility features we’re currently building into Firefox for Android. This blog post is about the more technical details of this support. First, the fact that we’ve … Continue reading
First round of accessibility support for Android in mobile Firefox
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
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, Eyes-Free, Firefox, KickBack, SoundBack, TalkBack
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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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