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Re: WAVE replacement?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 4, 2016 1:43PM

TX Knight wrote:

> I just learned recently learned that WebAIM no longer provides their WAVE
> tool for FireFox

More accurately, an unfixed bug in Firefox prohibits us from providing
or updating the WAVE extension for Firefox. We would provide the
add-on if Firefox supported it.

However, we are looking into the new Firefox add-on APIs. As soon as
they support the functionality required for WAVE to work, we will
certainly be releasing an updated version.

We do license a stand-alone version of WAVE that can be installed
locally. So long as the machine it is installed on can access the
pages to be evaluated, then this may be a possibility for you. It
does, however, like our online version, have some limitations that are
not present in the browser extension.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org