Firebug Accessibility Extension

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This page is for coordinating the development of the A11y Firebug Accessibility Extension. For other ideas related to Firebug and accessibility see the Firebug Accessibility Roadmap.

Contents 1 Communication 2 A11y Firebug Extension Teleconference Information 3 Goals 4 Project Activities 5 Current Distribution 6 Test Pages 6.1 Teleconference Archive

Communication

• Free ARIA Google Group and E-mail list
• Mozilla IRC, channel #accessibility, try to be on at 15:00 UTC (9:00am CST USA) for Firebug Accessibility Extension discussion

A11y Firebug Extension Teleconference Information

• Date: 26 May 2009
• USA Time: 2:00pm EDT, 1:00pm CDT, 11:00am PDT (USA)
• Universal Time: 18:00 UTC
• Phone: +1 (217) 265-9888
• IRC: irc.mozilla.org, #accessibility
• WWW: http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/2009-05-26_A11y_Firebug_Accesibility_Extension_Teleconference

Goals

• Increase developer awareness and knowledge of web accessibility
  • WCAG 2.0 accessibility conformance
  • Best practices for accessible web design
• Provide node and element based accessibility feedback
• Provide page level accessibility reports that can be used as the basis for VPATs
• Support testing accessibility of dynamic content for use of:
  • ARIA markup and design patterns
  • Keyboard focus support

Project Activities

• YSlow Gaps and Feature Requests
• A11y DOM View
• A11y HTML View

Current Distribution

See: Repository Tools#Firebug Accessibility Extension

Test Pages

• Test Page using ARIA checkboxes with accessibility errors

Teleconference Archive

• 14 May 2009 Teleconference
• 13 March 2009 Teleconference
• 5 March 2009 Teleconference
• 27 February 2009 Special Teleconference with YSlow2 developers
• 19 February 2009 Teleconference Cancelled
• 12 February 2009 Teleconference
• 5 February 2009 Teleconference
• 29 January 2009 Teleconference
• 22 January 2009 Teleconference
• 15 January 2009 Teleconference
• 16 December 2008 Teleconference