Tag Archives: Firefox

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 →

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The WebVisum extension needs you!

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Marco

This is a shout-out to all interested extension developers who have some time to donate to the WebVisum extension project. As you can read in my review of the extension, it is one of the most important extensions for blind … 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What should the action name for an indeterminate checkbox be?

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Marco

As noted in this blog post, we’re currently working on implementing the accessibility for HTML 5 checkboxes that are indeterminate. An indeterminate checkbox is a checkbox that is neither checked nor unchecked, or half-checked if you will. The first stage … Continue reading →

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Implementing a new feature in Gecko that may have an impact on accessibility? Ping the accessibility team and tell them!

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Marco

This morning, Jeff Walden pinged me on IRC to ask me whether the new indeterminate DOM property for checkboxes that is being introduced in HTML 5 and which recently landed on Mozilla 1.9.2, has any accessibility implications. I did a … Continue reading →

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New feature: Nesting level and position information for HTML lists

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Marco

The new year has just begun, and we’re already speeding ahead with new features in Firefox trunk nightlies, AKA version 3.2a1pre. These features won’t see inclusion in Firefox 3.1, but are already the next generation features. The feature I’m going … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0.5 accessibility: New features

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Marco

Firefox 3.0.5 has just been released, and as the release notes mention, brings a few accessibility improvements. Here’s what they are! Firefox 3.0.5 exposes all CSS display properties as object attributes now in addition to the older “formatting:block” parameter. However, … Continue reading →

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