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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Aug 3, 2017 2:53PM

hey Birkir thanks for the plug man a couple of us of them working on
videos but had kept failing at completing them real jobs get in the way of
bats definitely. We would really like to have that Firefox dev tools
article as soon as possible thanks Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Yura Zenevich < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> This work is starting to being reviewed and landing in Firefox Nightly very
> shortly - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id51468
> cheers,
> yura
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Jonathan Cohn < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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>,
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> > > > http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-
> > > > accessible-technology-solutions
> > > > E+R=O
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