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From: Reinhard Stebner
Date: Apr 27, 2018 6:35AM

See The below blog posts for accessibility related content in regards to Firefox developer toolbar.

https://www.marcozehe.de/2016/01/26/making-the-firefox-developer-tools-accessible/
https://www.marcozehe.de/2018/04/11/introducing-the-accessibility-inspector-in-the-firefox-developer-tools/


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> On Apr 27, 2018, at 7:21 AM, Chris Westbrook < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello to all. I am a totally blind web developer loking to upgrade my
> skills. I have been working on an enterprise asp.net webforms project for
> the past 10 years and am trying to learn some more modern technologies like
> aira and javascript frameworks, etc. Currently I am building a little app
> in angular. I am new to aria, but I am noticing when I have
> aria-atomic="true" and aria-live="polite" that the region is being read
> multiple times even though it is only changing once. It is reading the same
> thing twice so I know it is not changing. Are there any good tips for
> troubleshooting what might be going on? I have fields changing based on
> calculations, and I would like those changes announced but only once. Is
> there a better way to communicate to screen readers something has changed
> other than aria-live, perhaps with a notification or something? Obviously
> sighted people would just see the changes on the screen. Also do you have
> any tips on using he firefox console, it seems to be a semipainful
> experience, if I console.lg an object nvda doesn't read it at all it just
> says treeview. Thanks for any feedback you can provide.
> > > >