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Re: The Accessibility of Browser-based Development Environments

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From: Yura Zenevich
Date: Aug 3, 2017 8:44AM

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
> > >
> > >