[orca-list] [Fwd: Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 Beta 2 available]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

FYI.  Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 Beta 2 available.

See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512261, which tracks 
work from Joanie (already committed to SVN trunk) to better support the 
extension.  Or, at least the last known version of it -- we haven't 
tested with this one as far as I know.

Will

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• From: Jon Gunderson <jongund UIUC EDU>
• To: ICITA-L LISTSERV UIUC EDU
• Subject: Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 Beta 2 available
• Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:43:22 -0600

Beta 2 of the Firefox Accessibility Extension Version 1.3 is now available for Firefox 3.0 beta.

You can download a copy from:

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/#beta

New Features

1.  Support for Firefox 3.0, but there are still some outstanding compatibility issues, some of the following 
features may not work correctly.

2. Scripting: List of ARIA Roles and properties based on RDF and appears in a sidebar. The 
URL:http://www.w3.org/2005/01/wai-rdf/GUIRoleTaxonomy# is parsed and the details of each role are displayed 
in the sidebar.

3. Scripting: List of ARIA Widgets has been modified to report widgets that contain invalid attributes or 
attribute values. States must be in the form "aria-", 'aaa:' is no longer supported.

4. Scripting: Focus Inspector feature has been added. The focus inspector displays accessibility information 
about the element with keyboard focus.

5. Style: Colour Contrast analysis based on the WCACG 2.0 color contrast requirements as implemented in the 
Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension, has been added. The colour contrast analyzer only 
examines the difference between foreground and background colours for text content, so won't detect scenarios 
where text is written over the top of a background image or images that include text.

6. Style: Text Flow has been added, it will report when text will flow poorly on screen resolutions below to 
equal to 1024 x 768.

7. Validators: W3C Specifications has been added, it will report W3C specifications, such as missing DOCTYPE, 
and missing character encoding.

8. New pages are opened in a new window or tab according to the browsers preferences.

9. Reports: Accessibility problems and issues report has been added, it will report accessibility failures, 
warning and suggestions based on the iCITA HTML Best practices. Clicking on an issue will open up the 
corresponding dialog.
Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility
Disability Resources and Educational Services

Rehabilitation Education Center
Room 86
1207 S. Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61821

Voice: (217) 244-5870

WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/

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