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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Feb 27, 2007 8:20AM

The Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0 is a free tool which has an
important NEW feature to test dynamically generated web resources (client
side javascripting to generate html content) for functional web
accessibility features.

Download a give it a try:
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffirefox.cita.uiuc.edu>

New Feature highlights in version 1.0
1. Improved menu and toolbar layout that is more consistent
with Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator (FAE)
reports and CITES/DRES Web Accessibility Best Practices to
implement Section 508 and W3C Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines.

Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffae.cita.uiuc.edu>

CITES/DRES Web Accessibility Best Practices
http://html.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhtml.cita.uiuc.edu>

2. Test Dynamically generated web resources using the "FAE
Report" feature. It sends a snap shot of the current DOM
to FAE and returns a report to the user.

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/tools.php<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffirefox.cita.uiuc.edu%2Ftools.php>

3. Links to other accessibility testing tools
WebAIM Wave
Cynthia Says
WebXact
TAW

4. Compatible with Firefox 2.0

Jon