Mozilla.dev.accessibility
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Summary: mozilla.dev.accessibility - to October 6, 2006
Authored by Sherman Fernandes, Dean Woodside
Announcements
- Legal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility
- US Federal court rules that retailers may be sued if its website is inaccsessible. Read more...
Discussions
- W3C Sets Road Map for Web App Accessibility
- The W3C introduced its WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative for Accessible Rich Internet Applications) roadmap--a set of guidelines for developers to make accessible web content. This set of documents tackles some of the difficulties that AJAX has been causing with regards to accessibility. Read more...
- Other links of interest:
Meetings
- Accessibility Hackfest 2006 - October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA (more details)
- Participants include the Mozilla Foundation, IBM, Sun and Novell to name a few.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Where can I find more about Mozilla's accessibility initiatives?
A: Mozilla Accessibility Project
Q: What are some of the built-in accessibility features that are currently supported in the browser?
A: Firefox's Built-in Accessibility Features
Q: Which assistive technologies support Firefox and Thunderbird?
A: Assistive Technology Compatibility - Documents assistive technologies for Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X and the degree of compatibility with Firefox 1.5.0.5+ and Thunderbird 1.5.0.5+
Q: What can I do to make sure my Mozilla extensions are accessible?
A: In general, use the Accessible Toolkit Checklist. For interface design with XUL, follow the Accessibile XUL Authoring Guidelines.
Q: I'm interested in helping promote the fine accessibility features that Firefox provides, what can I do?
A: Join the Firefox Accessibility Advocates
