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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Mon, Aug 08 2005 12:00PM
Subject: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox - article on Ariadne
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Nothing special, but thought it may interest some list members:

in a similar vein to Paul Bohman's excellent article on "Using Opera
to Check for Accessibility"
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/opera
I've recently written a small piece on "Evaluating Web Sites for
Accessibility
with Firefox" http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue44/lauke/

(and yes, keen eyed readers may see that my conclusion is tellingly
similar
to the one in Paul's article ... imitation/flattery and all that)

___________
Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
___________
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
http://webstandards.org/
___________

From: James Pickering
Date: Tue, Aug 09 2005 6:00AM
Subject: Re: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox-article on Ariadne
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Christian Heilmann < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

"Don't forget aardvark: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
Great for checking if the markup is semantic and general debugging."

Thank you for that reference.

--
James Pickering
http://www.jp29.org/
Accessible to People with Disabilities
RSS feed via RDF/XML

From: Thomas Jedenfelt
Date: Tue, Aug 09 2005 11:08AM
Subject: Re: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox -article on Ariadne
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James Pickering,

As you are new to the Firefox extension 'Web Developer', I thought I should mention that it the has a similar feature like the 'Aardvark' extension that Chris Heilmann recommended.

'Web Developer' will display (by a shortcut key) the code structure and ID and CLASS in the status bar.

html > body > div#maincontent > h1 > span.h1-line 2

(Example from the WebAIM Forum, hovering a discussion's subject.)

Another useful extension is the 'Table Inspector' (by Gez Lemon) 'to reveal the hidden accessibility features of data tables, such as summary, headers, axis, scope, and abbr'.
http://juicystudio.com/article/firefox-table-inspector.php

Regards,
Thomas Jedenfelt

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From: "Christian Heilmann" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox -article on Ariadne
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:49:40 +0100

>
> On 8/8/05, James Pickering < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> > Very nice, Patrick. I installed Chris Pederick's excellent Firefox toolbar
> > utility http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ and have found
> > it to be extremely useful in so many ways.
>
> Don't forget aardvark: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
> Great for checking if the markup is semantic and general debugging.
>
>
> --
> Chris Heilmann
> Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
> Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
> Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/

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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Tue, Aug 09 2005 11:09AM
Subject: Re: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox -article on Ariadne
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On 8/8/05, James Pickering < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Very nice, Patrick. I installed Chris Pederick's excellent Firefox toolbar
> utility http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ and have found
> it to be extremely useful in so many ways.

Don't forget aardvark: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
Great for checking if the markup is semantic and general debugging.

--
Chris Heilmann
Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/

On 8/9/05, Thomas Jedenfelt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> James Pickering,
>
> As you are new to the Firefox extension 'Web Developer', I thought I should mention that it the has a similar feature like the 'Aardvark' extension that Chris Heilmann recommended.
>
> 'Web Developer' will display (by a shortcut key) the code structure and ID and CLASS in the status bar.
>
> html > body > div#maincontent > h1 > span.h1-line 2
>
> (Example from the WebAIM Forum, hovering a discussion's subject.)

Yes, but aardvark is more than that, you can expand the selection on
the current element or collapse it, thereby checking which element
might cause an error. You can also delete elements, something I have
done until then with the DOM Inspector.

From: James Pickering
Date: Tue, Aug 09 2005 11:09AM
Subject: Re: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox -article on Ariadne
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Very nice, Patrick. I installed Chris Pederick's excellent Firefox toolbar
utility http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ and have found
it to be extremely useful in so many ways.

--
James Pickering
http://www.jp29.org/
Accessible to People with Disabilities
RSS feed via RDF/XML

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From: "Patrick Lauke" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:24 AM
Subject: [WebAIM] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with
Firefox -article on Ariadne

Nothing special, but thought it may interest some list members:

in a similar vein to Paul Bohman's excellent article on "Using Opera
to Check for Accessibility"
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/opera
I've recently written a small piece on "Evaluating Web Sites for
Accessibility
with Firefox" http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue44/lauke/

(and yes, keen eyed readers may see that my conclusion is tellingly
similar
to the one in Paul's article ... imitation/flattery and all that)

___________
Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
___________
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
http://webstandards.org/
___________