Category Archives: Testing

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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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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First time driver: A critical fix for Firefox 4.0Beta11

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Marco

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 →

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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 →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 9, 2009

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Marco

Last week’s work saw quite some code cleanup. Unification of role and finalRole Previously, our nsI*Accessible interfaces exposed both role and finalRole properties. While role returned a preliminary role, finalRole always returned the finally determined role after all markup and … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 2, 2009

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Marco

This is the first in an ongoing weekly series where I’ll highlight items that the accessibility team has been working on over the last week. I’ll be reporting on fixed bugs, or will also call out on items that we … Continue reading →

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Starting an Accessible Name refactor, need your help in testing!

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Marco

For those of you following the Firefox/Gecko platform development, or for those interested in helping out, this is a call for participation. If you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty a bit and would like to help the Firefox … Continue reading →

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Progress on automated testing for the accessibility module

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Marco

Today, I checked in two changes that allow the unit tests we’ve developed for the accessibility module so far, to run on what we call a staging server. A staging server is a server that simulates production conditions, but isn’t … Continue reading →

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Accessibility testcases up in Litmus! Go and check them out!

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Marco

Litmus is Mozilla’s community testing platform that allows anyone to test Firefox or other Mozilla products by running a set of testcases and giving us feedback about whether the test passed or failed. The Mozilla QA team uses these test … Continue reading →

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