Tag Archives: Accessibility

Apple’s iOS 4 supports WAI-ARIA landmarks

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Marco

This is, I believe, my 100th post on this blog, and I’m using it to announce that Apple’s iOS 4, released yesterday for the iPhone and iPod Touch, supports WAI-ARIA landmark in the VoiceOver screen reader. VoiceOver has had, since … Continue reading →

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Roundup: What is the Mozilla Accessibility Team working on?

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Marco

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here I’m afraid. The reason was not an outbreak of laziness, but on the contrary the fact that the accessibility team at Mozilla is alive and kickin’, and working on the next … Continue reading →

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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 →

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The new “Freedom Of Choice” does not account for accessibility needs!

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Marco

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Easy ARIA Tip #5: aria-expanded and aria-controls

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Marco

In this Easy ARIA tip, I will give you a bit of a hint on how to make not too complex, but still dynamic, menus accessible. We often encounter menus that pop in and out upon a mouse click or … Continue reading →

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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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The descriptions are back!

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Marco

For those of you following along the Firefox 3.5 development cycle, you may have noticed a regression when dealing with HTML elements that have both screen text and a title attribute, such as the previous link in this sentence. In … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, April 20, 2009

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Marco

After the Easter holidays, pace has picked up again in the development of accessibility features and other work surrounding our eco system. Actions for sorting and expansion/collapsing After some minor setbacks, David’s patch on exposing actions for ARIA sort and … Continue reading →

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Extension tip, and feedback appreciated: Feed Sidebar

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Marco

The extension Feed Sidebar by Christopher Finke is a small extension that allows to view one’s Live Bookmarks in a sidebar, much like one would view history or bookmarks. It is not a new RSS feed management, but instead operates … 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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Why are web forums so unpopular with the blindness community?

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Marco

Last week, David Tenser, Kadir Topal, and I received an e-mail from Dirk, a moderator at www.BLINDzeln.net, a mostly German-speaking community which uses mailing lists exclusively to promote exchange between their members. These mailing lists vary in topics from cooking … Continue reading →

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Updated ARIA-spiced form example to work in IE 8

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Marco

I updated my simple form example from the third Easy ARIA Tip to also work in IE 8. I had to explicitly state a doc type to put IE out of quirks mode into proper IE 8 mode, and I … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 30, 2009

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Marco

The last week was rather short, but no less busy. First, on the off-code side, I attended the European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt (EAFRA) conference on Friday, March 27. Christian Heilmann from Yahoo! posted a great summary of the event and … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Marco

As the accessibility team was at the 2009 CSUN Center on Persons with Disabilities conference last week, not much happened on the forefront that is visible to bug and code watchers. The only changes that landed were: a fix for … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 16, 2009

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Marco

Last week, we focused mostly on some solidification on our code and test framework. We are having some strange problems with tests failing randomly or not being run at all. To that end, I fixed the loading of remote images … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, world wide web!

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Marco

Today, CERN will celebrate the 20th birthday of the world wide web. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Tim Berners-Lee for writing the initial proposal and sticking to the idea even though his boss, Mike Sendall forgot about … 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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JQuery UI 1.7 released

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Marco

The jQuery UI team has released jQuery UI 1.7. Congrats on this release! One thing the team did not mention in the above blog post is the fact that jQuery UI 1.7 is the first version to contain WAI-ARIA enhancements, … 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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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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