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Re: The Accessibility of Browser-based Development Environments

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Aug 3, 2017 8:20AM

Having an accessible tree inspector would be of great advantage to my
sighted co-workers who are not very comfortable with a screen reader. Right
now they have to rely on my presence to check if what they did had any
effect.

Is there a way to encourage this work?

Thanks,

Jonathan Cohn

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 9:24 AM Yura Zenevich < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all (first time poster). I help out with Firefox DevTools accessibility
> and indeed we landed improvements to markup inspector some time last year.
> We also made overall keyboard accessibility somewhat better. Though this
> year has been slower, we have a commitment to a high bar for Firefox
> DevTools accessibility this and next year. Later this year we are planning
> on releasing Accessible tree inspector as part of our DevTools, for
> example. Expect to see a lot more next year!
> yura
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Beranek, Nicholas via WebAIM-Forum <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > One of my colleagues really enjoys the accessibility improvements that
> > Firefox has made to its developer tools. He uses NVDA with it. He says
> that
> > they are very close to being made fully accessible, but he is able to
> > inspect code.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Jim Homme
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 8:52 AM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: [WebAIM] The Accessibility of Browser-based Development
> > Environments
> >
> > Hi,
> > I know that extensive work was done to make Firebug accessible. I thought
> > I read that that work was brought into FFirefox itself. This prompted me
> to
> > want to see if anyone who is blind here has either good experiences with
> > the development tools in either the newest Firefox, the newest IE, Edge,
> or
> > Chrome. I'm also wondering how Google is doing with Chrome accessibility
> in
> > general, and how the screen reader venders are doing with closing the gap
> > from their side, since Chrome seems to be very popular among sighted
> > vendors.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > =========> > Jim Homme,
> > Team Lead and Accessibility Consultant,
> > Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
> > Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
> > 412-787-8567 <(412)%20787-8567>,
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-
> > accessible-technology-solutions
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