Re: Volunteers Needed to Assess Accessibility of Mozilla Web Site

Hi Alex,

Please feel free to copy and post this wherever you'd like.
This group and SpreadFirefox.com is open to everyone and we highly
welcome and encourage participation.

Thanks!
Ken
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On Mar 12, 8:59 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can I send this to a couple other lists with blind people on
> them, or is this just for this list?
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> Have a great day,
> Alex
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Ken Saunders <[email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Date sent: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:28:12 -0700 (PDT)
> >Subject: Volunteers Needed to Assess Accessibility of Mozilla Web
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> >Hi All,
> >SpreadFirefox.com will soon be launching a new version of the
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> >3) with an entirely new layout and we are looking for volunteers
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> >head over to the staging site and kick the tires (so to speak)
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> >assess the state of its accessibility.
> >Although legally blind I am still sighted and have tested what I
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> >with my abilities and with whatever aids that I use but it would
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> >nice to send some feedback to the site's developers from others
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> >conditions that differ from mine including those of you who may
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> >using screen readers.
> >I've already commented on Bug 480852 (Assess accessibility for
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> >Spread Firefox redesign) on the accessibility issues that I have
> come
> >across and I hope that you will contribute to it too.
> >We have a great opportunity right now to point out any problems
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> >visitors may encounter when they visit the new site before the
> site is
> >launched because after that, getting things fixed becomes much
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> >difficult and expensive.
> >If you are already a member of Spread Firefox, you can use your
> >current SpreadFirefox.com credentials to access the staging site.
> >If by any chance you have problems with that, feel free to
> contact me.
> >http://www.AccessFirefox.org/ContactPage.php
> >I sincerely appreciate your time and any help that you may be
> able to
> >offer.
> >Take care.
> >Ken
> >Spread Firefox v3 Staging Site
> >https://spreadfirefox.authstage.mozilla.com/
> >Bug 480852 - Assess accessibility for the Spread Firefox redesign
> >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480852
> >-------------------- Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:27:23 PM
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