Tag Archives: Accessibility

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 →

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Social networks and accessibility: A rather sad picture

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Marco

In recent months, several popular social networks relaunched or updated their services, and one new player came out onto the plain field that, initially hyped, now is hardly talked about any more. Unfortunately, what all these have in common, is … Continue reading →

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From WAI-ARIA to HTML5 and back…or maybe not?

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Marco

Over the weekend, I gave a presentation at the German Multimediatreff. I talked about how to make things more accessible by combining HTML5 and WAI-ARIA in smart ways, using HTML5 where available and appropriate, and enhancing the user experience where … Continue reading →

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What’s new in Accessibility in Firefox 8.0

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Marco

The newest update to Firefox has just been released to the public, and it’s that time again where we look at the user-facing and facing assistive technologies changes in this Firefox release. If not otherwise noted, these changes apply to … 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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Firefox 7 is released, new features in accessibility

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Marco

Firefox Update 7 has just hit the net, and while it’s still hot, I wanted to share a few items specific to accessibility that are included. First and foremost, we participated in the improvements to memory usage and speed. More … Continue reading →

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Review: The all-new Yahoo! Mail web application

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Marco

Yahoo! recently announced the availability of their all-new mail web application. They also made announcements on the Yahoo! Access channels about the much improved accessibility of this new mail interface. Well, it’s time to look at it! So shall we? … 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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What’s new in accessibility in Firefox 6

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Marco

On Friday May 27, a bigger update was offered to everyone on the Aurora channel that brought them up to a revision 6 Firefox. As this was a bigger update, it is time to also point out the new stuff … Continue reading →

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Firefox 6: html:progress element accessibility

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Marco

Recently, Mounir landed support for the HTML5 progress element on the Mozilla development branch (AKA “Nightly” channel). A few days later, after a concerted effort and another episode of “Marco and C++ are only partially good friends” , accessibility support … Continue reading →

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Mozilla is launching the Aurora channel, bringing accessibility features to you more rapidly!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Marco

As was just posted on the Mozilla blog, Firefox is moving to a more rapid release cycle from now on. This also means that accessibility features and fixes will be delivered to users more rapidly than in the past. And … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 is here!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Marco

Firefox 4 has finally hit the release channels and is available for download immediately! This is a major update that brings a lot of new features and enhancements as well as loads of stability and performance fixes to your browsing … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Mozilla, QA | Tagged , , , | 19 Comments

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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New accessibility support for HTML5 elements and attributes

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Marco

In the nightly builds starting November 9th, 2010, there are some HTML5 elements and attributes newly supported by the accessibility APIs. This will be in Firefox 4.0. Landmark elements mapped to WAI-ARIA landmark roles We are mapping the following HTML5 … 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 →

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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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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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