Category Archives: NVDA

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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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 →

Posted in Accessibility, Apple, Firefox, NVDA, Orca | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Quick tip: Handling the sub menus in the WordPress 3.3 admin area with a screen reader

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Marco

This is a quick tip to show how to use the new sub menus in the admin area of WordPress 3.3 with a screen reader. For this, I’m using NVDA 2011.3RC, and Firefox 9. The new sub menus are a … Continue reading →

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NV Access receives a Mozilla grant to further push accessibility on the web

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Marco

The Mozilla project is very committed to making the web available to all people. To further that goal, members of the Mozilla community actively work with Non-Visual Desktop Access and other accessibility initiatives to make sure everyone benefits from the … Continue reading →

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New in Accessibility in Firefox 4.0

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Marco

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 , , , | 14 Comments

What’s up with all those windows?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Marco

This blog post has to do with the reasons why Firefox 4.0Beta 5 and Beta 6 are totally inaccessible to most, if not all, Windows assistive technologies, and also cause problems with some mouse drivers and such. It all started … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mozilla, NVDA, QA, Testing | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

CSUN 2010 recap

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Marco

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 , | 6 Comments

NVDA 2009.1 beta, what’s in it for Firefox users?

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Marco

En route to their 2009.1 final release, the NV Access team has released 2009.1beta1. Here’s a run-down of new features since their 0.6p3 release, of which I did a similar post. This does not cover everything, just the bits that … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, NVDA | 11 Comments

New approaches to Flash and Java accessibility in the browser on Windows

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Marco

Mick and Jamie from NV Access, the organization behind the free and open-source NVDA screen reader for Windows, are taking new approaches to accessing accessible Flash and Java applets inside the browser. Traditionally, Adobe Flash content is being rendered into … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, NVDA | 22 Comments

Last weeks in the “Accessible” module, May 11, 2009

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Marco

Sorry for being a slacker in updating you guys regularly on what’s been happening! But we’ve been quite busy at getting some stuff finished and hopefully ready for inclusion in 3.5. I already posted about the return of the descriptions … Continue reading →

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Article on how to use NVDA and Firefox to test web sites for accessibility

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Marco

I just published an article on how to use NVDA and Firefox to do website testing. This article can be found on the front page of my blog under the “Pages” section, in the “Articles” sublist. The article is meant … Continue reading →

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NVDA 0.6p3 released, quite some news for Mozilla users!

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Marco

As you may or may not have read, the NVDA team released NVDA 0.6p3 last night. Below, I’d like to highlight those of the changes that are of special interest to those using Mozilla products such as Firefox or Thunderbird … Continue reading →

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