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Re: WAVE replacement?

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From: Sarah Horton
Date: Feb 4, 2016 2:11PM

Jared, great to hear WAVE in Firefox might come back — I miss it! Is there anything we can do as a community to get the needed functionality in place?

Sarah Horton
UX Strategy Lead
The Paciello Group
603 252-6052 mobile

> On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
> > > >