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Tag Archives: Accessibility
ARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience
This post continues a series on the implementation of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) in Gmail. On July 30, Orca team lead Willie Walker forwarded a message to the Orca mailing list titled Orca & gmail. The message is originally … Continue reading
More ARIA in the news
As I’m catching up with news after my return from Whistler, I have two suggested ARIA-related readings for you: Gez Lemon of the Opera Developer community has posted an article titled Introduction to WAI ARIA. This is probably the most … Continue reading
Progress on automated testing for the accessibility module
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
ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts
Google have recently started to put ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) into GMail. This means that ARIA is now getting a lot more exposure than it used to, with GMail being probably one of the most widely used web applications … Continue reading
Support for text attributes and spell checking is coming in Firefox 3.1!
For those of you on the bleeding edge, namely on the Firefox 3.1a1pre nightly builds, the Friday’s nightly build will include one big new feature in accessibility for 3.1: Text attributes and spell checking support! This means that assistive technologies … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Tagged Accessibility, AT-SPI, Firefox, IAccessible2, TextAttributes
15 Comments
Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role “alert”
I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last Easy ARIA tip. But I’m hoping that this one will find you all excited and willing to play with it some more! The problem: You have a … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Uncategorized
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
27 Comments
WordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!
I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6. This version brings with it a number of accessibility enhancements. One thing you might have noticed already is that there is now a default language set. Default English blogs should now always … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Orca, WordPress
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, NVDA, Orca, WordPress
14 Comments
Review of the WebVisum Firefox extension
Today, a post announcing the WebVisum Firefox extension was posted to the mozilla.dev.accessibility newsgroup. The things talked about in this post and on the WebVisum homepage almost sound too good to be true. Among the features are: Ability to tag … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Extensions, Firefox, Mozilla
Tagged Accessibility, captcha, Extension, Firefox
50 Comments
Extension developers: 5 things to make your extension more accessible
After my first reach out to extension developers, Aaron and I have brainstormed and come up with the 5 most common things you as an extension developer should consider to make your extension more accessible. Here’s what we came up … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Extensions, Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Uncategorized
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, XUL
7 Comments
Two new ARIA related resources
There are two new ARIA resources that recently entered the web which I’d like to point you to if you’re interested: Paciello Group have started an ARIA tutorial. Peter Thiessen of ATRC in Toronto, Canada, has started a blog on … Continue reading
Accessibility testcases up in Litmus! Go and check them out!
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
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mozilla, QA, Testing
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, Litmus, Testing
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Extension developers: Give your extension an accessibility checkup for Firefox 3!
As Firefox 3 is fast approaching, and you extension developers are getting ready to update your products, it is a good time to also give your extensions a thorough accessibility checkup. Can the extension be launched without using a mouse? … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Extensions, Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Tagged Accessibility, Extensions, Firefox, XUL
7 Comments
Share your success stories with Mozilla Accessibility
Aaron Leventhal posted a great summary of the impact of Mozilla Accessibility to the mozilla.dev.accessibility newsgroup. Have anything to add? Any success story to share where the accessibility in Mozilla product had an impact on you? Either comment here on … Continue reading
Impressions from SightCity 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany
From May 7 to May 9, I attended the SightCity conference and exhibition of assistive technologies for the blind and visually impaired. It is the biggest one in the German speaking world, and one of the biggest venues of this … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mozilla
Tagged Accessibility, Conference, Firefox, SightCity
4 Comments
Impressions from a German Web 2.0 accessibility conference
Last week on Tuesday, I attended a German web 2.0 accessibility conference titled Einfach für Alle – Konzepte und Zukunftsbilder für ein Barrierefreies Internet, loosely translated “Simply for all – Concepts and Visions for an accessible internet”. The conference was … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Mozilla
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Conference, EinfachFuerAlle
2 Comments
Social Bookmarking feature added to blog
Umm well, I sort of had it already, you could either add posts to digg or del.icio.us. But this all was a bit hacky, and the implementation wasn’t too accessible, either. I therefore browsed around a bit on the WordPress … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, General, WordPress
Tagged Accessibility, Bookmarking, Plugin, SocialBookmarking, WordPress
9 Comments
Are Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?
Peter of ATRC and an a11y community member, pointed me to a blog post titled “Stop using Ajax!”, written by OperaDev community member James “Brothercake” Edwards. My initial reaction was “Oh no! Not another one who uses accessibility as the … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Orca
Tagged Accessibility, Ajax, ARIA, Dojo, Firefox, Jquery
9 Comments
Some better evaluation of image markup
Thursday’s nightly build of Firefox 3 contained a change that will give more useful information on certain pages where attributes for image tags have been used in some funny way. There are sometimes sites where the web author supplies an … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, AltAttribute, Firefox, ImgTag, TitleAttribute
4 Comments
Looking for help with a certain crasher
I’m looking for someone running Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 who has been submitting crash reports similar to this one. Basically if you’ve got a crash report pointing to nsAccessNode::ClearCacheEntry, I request that you contact me directly or here on this … Continue reading
Started on automated test case development
As some of you may already have read on the newsgroups, or heard through statements from me or other accessibility developers at the Firefox project, one of my tasks is to develop automated test cases for our accessibility module. I … Continue reading