Re: Proposed Mozilla accessibility strategy

This is great, but how about extending Firefox's accessibility for VI
who do not use screen readers? This means making the visual interface
more accessible, customizable and extensible through add-ons and
themes. There are great add-ons out there like Accessibar, NoSquint,
Noise and Image Zoom as well as great themes like the HiVis family.
But not all of the Fifrefox interface is fully customizable for
accessibility.

1. Are there easier ways to accessibly condense toolbars? Toolbars eat
up very valuable screen space and VI users, like me, tend to have the
screen resolutions set very low and fonts/zoom high. I have done my
best to condense useful toolbars while maintaining sufficient
separation between items for icon/text identification. This is tricky
and in no way a user friendly operation.

2. Can Firefox become noisier? More precisely, can more Firefox events
be Noise-enabled? More audio interaction is easier on the eyes.

3. Can we make all colors customizable? Specifically, I am referring
to our earlier discussion of the spellchecker underline color, which
is hard-coded and whose fix is apparently either difficult or a low
priority (or both). There must be more of these idiosyncrasies that
could be identified and fixed.

4. Can Firefox offer some accessibility guidelines to third party
developers? Plug-in, add-on and theme developers could be made more
aware of accessibility issues when designing UIs. Options menus often
spill over the edges of low-res screens without scrollbars, etc. I
realize that most of these developers are volunteers, but a little
guidance could not hurt anyone.

5. Can Firefox zoom better? I love being able to control text and full
page zoom individually. I could not really access the internet without
these tools (and stay screen reader free). Yet some pages do not
respond well to zoom. This is probably a html issue, not a Firefox
one, but I do not know, so I ask. Many hover/popups (I do not know the
technical term) spill past screen edges with no way to read them
without reducing zoom. Along these lines, is there anything else that
Firefox could do to correct inaccessible web sites?

Food for thought...