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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Mon, Nov 29 2004 3:07PM
Subject: Re: Mozilla Accessibility Extension for testing for acce ssibility within a web browser
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> Any chance of making this available for FireFox?

Seems to work just fine in Firefox.

-Darrel

From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mon, Nov 29 2004 3:22PM
Subject: Re: Mozilla Accessibility Extension for testing for acce ssibility within a web browser
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It should work in Firefox.

Please let us know if you have any problems or what other
features you would like.

Jon


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>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:02:48 -0600
>From: "darrel.austin"
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Mozilla Accessibility Extension for
testing for acce ssibility within a web browser
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>> Any chance of making this available for FireFox?
>
>Seems to work just fine in Firefox.
>
>-Darrel
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Thu, Dec 02 2004 7:43AM
Subject: Re: Mozilla Accessibility Extension for testing for acce ssibility within a web browser
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> Darrel,
> Could you send me the URL that you tried to disable tables?

That wasn't me, but I noticed the problem on a few sites as well.

I do like the extension. A few suggestions:

- with the lists, why not make all the data appear in the columns? For
instance, with images, I need to click on each image to get to the alt-text.
Why not just add an alt-text column?

- a print button on the list windows would be useful

- the toolbar that appears across the top of my browser doesn't seem
moveable or hideable. Since the same options are in the TOOLS >>
ACCESSIBILITY menu, it'd be nice to have an option to hide the regular
toolbar just to conserve screen real estate.

- a lot of the features are also features found in the web-developer
toolbar. That's not a critique...just an obvservation in case you weren't
aware of that extension too.

Overall, though, it's definitely a nice add-on to Firefox.

Also, I've been playing with the Fangs extension a bit too (the screen
reader 'emulator') and that's becoming quite useful as well.

-Darrel

From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Thu, Dec 02 2004 8:36AM
Subject: Re: Mozilla Accessibility Extension for testing for acce ssibility within a web browser
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Responses in JRG:
> - with the lists, why not make all the data appear in the
columns? For
>instance, with images, I need to click on each image to get
to the alt-text.
>Why not just add an alt-text column?
>

JRG: The alt text is now in the text column in the lastest
version.

> - a print button on the list windows would be useful

JRG: You mean you would like to print to paper the list of
something? Why would this be useful?

>
> - the toolbar that appears across the top of my browser
doesn't seem
>moveable or hideable. Since the same options are in the TOOLS >>
>ACCESSIBILITY menu, it'd be nice to have an option to hide
the regular
>toolbar just to conserve screen real estate.

JRG: On the right hand side of all toolbars is a shaded area
with a small arrow pointing down. Click in this area and the
toolbar will shrink. But what it sounds like is you would
like a hide altogether function, right?

>
> - a lot of the features are also features found in the
web-developer
>toolbar. That's not a critique...just an obvservation in case
you weren't
>aware of that extension too.

JRG: Yes we are.

>
>Overall, though, it's definitely a nice add-on to Firefox.
>
>Also, I've been playing with the Fangs extension a bit too
(the screen
>reader 'emulator') and that's becoming quite useful as well.
>

JRG: We are planning to add the screen reader (text view)
found in fang to the accessibility extension. Although the
interface will be different. We already implement a list of
header and list of links function proposed in fang. Our goal
is a tool both developers and people with disabilities can use.

Thanks you for your comments!

Jon


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248

E-mail: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =

WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/