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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
> >
> >