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View ArticleBrowser Accessibility Acid Test?
We're on our way! Thanks to funding from the Mozilla Foundation, Eitan Isaacson has built a tool for comparing browser accessibility implementations. His latest post titled "Apples and Pairs" provides...
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ATRC ARIA efforts in 2008
With funding from the Mozilla Foundation and IBM, in 2008 the ATRC continued to help communities add support for accessible DHTML using ARIA. This meant a whole whack of little things, including...
View ArticleJoining the Mozilla Accessibility Team
For my readers, all 5 of you, I want you to know the rumors are truthy. The Mozilla Corporation has come to an arrangement with the ATRC that will allow me to spend some time focusing on helping Marco...
View Article7 things
I think Steve Lee was first to tag me with this fun 7 things meme.My SevenI lived most of my childhood on a family goat farm in rural Ontario, Canada. I loved fetching buckets of water for the goats...
View ArticleGo ahead browser, make my day...
This command (I use OS X) takes the patches in my mercurial queue (which I tend to name bug-#) and opens a browser tab for each.hg qseries | sed...
View ArticleCall for review: WAI-ARIA
If you are somehow involved in supporting interactive web content, please consider reviewing one or more of these W3C documents related to accessibility.For everyone involved in web content, this is...
View ArticleARIA User Agent Implementation Task Force
Today we kicked off the first meeting for the "ARIA User Agent Implementation Task Force" (UAI-TF). Our primary goal is browser compatibility in our WAI-ARIA implementations for DHTML accessibility --...
View ArticleFirefox Accessibility Goals
Ahhh Spring.As we approach the ides of March, it is time for the Mozilla accessibility community to reflect, and to plan for the next quarter and beyond. Here are the high level goals we are thinking...
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CSUN's 2009 Accessibility Conference
Late last week I attended the 2009 Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, a conference which most of us accessibility folks call "c-sun" as it has been held at CSUN for over 20 years....
View ArticleInnovation and Usability in Firefox
This is almost a bait and switch... but not quite.Where I see Frank's Mozilla Accessibility Strategy document providing direction for Firefox/gecko is in the Mozilla development process as it applies...
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Keyboard control of html5 video elements
HTML 5 introduces the video and audio media elements. Playback is manipulated by the user with browser supplied controls (indicated via the controls attribute), or with author supplied controls. In the...
View ArticleAccessible SVG is closer than you think
[Firstly, my apologies for not blogging more often (blame twitter). I have a number of unpublished blogs that I've let get stale so I'm going try not to save unpublished blogs anymore. We'll see how...
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Accessibility Diagnostic Jetpack
I put together a little jetpack that tells you if Firefox's accessibility service is actually running in your browser. It is basically David Baron's "about:accessibilityenabled" extension but as a...
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Mozilla at CSUN 2010
First of all, check out my colleague Marco's recap of CSUN 2010. I'll try add to his report, while avoiding redundancy.Uhm. Wow. That was rough. Three days of people loving Mozilla.Meet upsI landed at...
View ArticleSelf Voicing Apps and Screen Readers could live together
Screen readers are applications that interrogate the desktop, applications, and events, in order to provide users with an aural rendering.Self voicing applications already render aurally; and as a user...
View ArticleWanted: Mozilla Linux Accessibility Developer
The Mozilla Corporation is seeking a software developer for an exciting opportunity to hack in our Linux accessibility layer. The successful candidate will make core code additions and improvements to...
View ArticleFirefox 4 beta - AT Vendor Alert
Hello friendly accessibility technology vendors and developers.As of the Firefox 4 beta 5, the child windows associated with browser tabs have been removed thereby breaking the expectations of most...
View ArticleFirefox 4 beta - AT Vender Relief
Success. Earlier this month I posted an alert about the temporary Windows screen reader bustage with our Firefox 4 betas. Since then Marco posted a status update about our temporary and long term...
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Asynchronous Accessibility?
Our current gecko accessibility engine (GAE) happily serves chrome and content information through synchronous desktop accessibility API such as MSAA/IA2. For example a screen reader makes a...
View ArticleWanted: Mozilla Accessibility Developer
Best. Job. Ever.Accessibility provides one of the most interesting and rewarding software development careers. This statement is biased to be sure, but consider these examples of problems in web...
View ArticleCobwebs
I'm going to sort through some draft posts and kick this blog thing back into gear, at least for a while.
View ArticleCanvas Accessibility
On its own the HTML canvas element is not accessible to everyone and that's not likely to change. The canvas itself is simply a primitive drawing surface that web developers can use via a fairly low...
View ArticleMission feeds morale
A long time ago I surprised Marco Zehe with a question and I took notes. These are my notes:me: What do you like about your work at Mozilla? You can take your time, and if you like you can answer...
View ArticleGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day
Hey there.This year I've chosen time as my personal theme for Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Your time is your most precious resource. Obvious no? Yet the value of your time is only there if you...
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