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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2007 8:20AM
Subject: Test dynamically generated web pages for accessibilitywith Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0
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The Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0 is a free tool which has an
important NEW feature to test dynamically generated web resources (client
side javascripting to generate html content) for functional web
accessibility features.

Download a give it a try:
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffirefox.cita.uiuc.edu>

New Feature highlights in version 1.0
1. Improved menu and toolbar layout that is more consistent
with Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator (FAE)
reports and CITES/DRES Web Accessibility Best Practices to
implement Section 508 and W3C Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines.

Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffae.cita.uiuc.edu>

CITES/DRES Web Accessibility Best Practices
http://html.cita.uiuc.edu<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhtml.cita.uiuc.edu>

2. Test Dynamically generated web resources using the "FAE
Report" feature. It sends a snap shot of the current DOM
to FAE and returns a report to the user.

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/tools.php<;https://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffirefox.cita.uiuc.edu%2Ftools.php>

3. Links to other accessibility testing tools
WebAIM Wave
Cynthia Says
WebXact
TAW

4. Compatible with Firefox 2.0

Jon

From: Gareth Dart
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2007 8:30AM
Subject: Re: Test dynamically generated web pages foraccessibilitywith Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0
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Hi,

Hate to nit-pick, but this crashes Firefox (2.0.0.1) on install. I do have a lot of other extensions installed so this is probably a conflict with one of them. Will try and determine what's happening and will post what I find.

I hope I can get this to work. I have found that other automated tools of this kind give vague results that are not particularly helpful for pinpointing problems.

G

From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2007 8:40AM
Subject: Re: Test dynamically generated web pages foraccessibilitywith Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0
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Gareth,
Please let us know what you find out about the crashing of FF 2.0, yours is
the first report I have heard.

You can try the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator with out the
extension, it just will not test code generated by scripting.

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

Let us know what you think, we will have a new reporting interface for FAE
in about a month or so that will give much better feedback on design
improvements.

Jon


On 2/27/07, Gareth Dart < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Hate to nit-pick, but this crashes Firefox (2.0.0.1) on install. I do
> have a lot of other extensions installed so this is probably a conflict with
> one of them. Will try and determine what's happening and will post what I
> find.
>
> I hope I can get this to work. I have found that other automated tools of
> this kind give vague results that are not particularly helpful for
> pinpointing problems.
>
> G
>
>

From: Gareth Dart
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2007 9:10AM
Subject: Re: Test dynamically generated web pagesforaccessibilitywith Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0
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It _is_ a conflict with another extension. Annoyingly, it's a conflict with an extension which is very useful - namely Google's Load Time Analyser: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3371/. I had rather hoped that this would be a conflict with a fluff extension that I don't use very often, but as it is I use the load time gadget a few times a day, being a bit of a loading time obsessive.

I'll disable the load time analyser while I test this.

G

From: ben morrison
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2007 9:20AM
Subject: Re: Test dynamically generated web pagesforaccessibilitywith Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0
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On 2/27/07, Gareth Dart < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> It _is_ a conflict with another extension. Annoyingly, it's a conflict with an extension which is very useful - namely Google's Load Time Analyser: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3371/. I had rather hoped that this would be a conflict with a fluff extension that I don't use very often, but as it is I use the load time gadget a few times a day, being a bit of a loading time obsessive.
>
> I'll disable the load time analyser while I test this.

You can use Firebug for Network Monitoring (as well as a host of other
useful utils):

http://www.getfirebug.com/

ben