Tag Archives: Firefox

Support for text attributes and spell checking is coming in Firefox 3.1!

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role “alert”

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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WordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Review of the WebVisum Firefox extension

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Extension developers: 5 things to make your extension more accessible

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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How to make JAWS 8.0 load the Firefox configuration for Firefox 3.0

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Marco

In order for JAWS 8.0 to load the Firefox configuration also for Firefox 3.0, so that a Virtual Find can be performed using Ctrl+F, the file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\8.0\Settings\enu\ConfigNames.ini must be edited. At the end of the … 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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Extension developers: Give your extension an accessibility checkup for Firefox 3!

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Making the AwesomeBar even more awesome!

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Marco

Today I decided that Twitter is indeed something I want to use more often in the future. As I was looking around AMO, I found the TwitterBar extension by Chris Finke. This thing is truly awesome, and it adds even … Continue reading →

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Impressions from SightCity 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Are Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Some better evaluation of image markup

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Looking for help with a certain crasher

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Started on automated test case development

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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Putting final touches on Firefox 3 accessibility

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Marco

Over the past weeks the developers and I have been spending time putting the final touches on Firefox 3 accessibility. Here are some of the things worth noting: On Linux, the Library dialog will be working correctly in the upcoming … Continue reading →

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A follow up to my Easy ARIA tip #2

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Marco

Community member Ben Millard has pointed out in a recent blog post that roughly the same as shown in my example can be achieved using regular HTML 4 by embedding the input into the label. Thanks for that info, Ben! … Continue reading →

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Easy ARIA Tip #1: Using aria-required

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Marco

Inspired by a conversation I had with Aaron the other day, I’m starting a mini series about easy accessibility improvements you can accomplish using ARIA, but which do not require you to implement a whole widget. Some ARIA attributes also … Continue reading →

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A lot of small but noticeable usability improvements

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Marco

Beginning of this week, Aaron Leventhal, who is the module owner for Mozilla accessibility, and I met in Stuttgart, Germany to work on some hard to reproduce and nagging issues. Among one big issue having to do with how document … Continue reading →

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What on earth are Places? :-)

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Marco

A while back, on IRC, Mick Curran of the NVDA project posed an interesting question that led me to this blog post. Those of you who have been following the Firefox 3 press coverage have probably stumbled upon the term … Continue reading →

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A few important changes to the accessibility of the Location Bar

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Marco

As those of you working with Nightly builds may have already noticed, there have been a few important bug fixes made for the Location bar and a few other Places-related controls. Here’s a summary of them: The Location bar pop … Continue reading →

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