Re: Mozilla and UUAG compliance
David Bolter <[email protected]>
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Jon, excellent point! Want to do a review? D On 4/21/09 2:13 PM, Jon Gunderson wrote: > One of the goals of the Firefox Accessibility Extension was to add the UAAG 1.0 required features to Firefox. > > I never did a formal review of FF + Firefox Accessibility Extension against UAAG 1.0, but I believe most requirements are satisfied when used in conjunctions with the accessibility extenison. > > http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu > > There may be also be other extensions that also support compliance with UAAG, like Firevox. > > Jon > > > ---- Original message ---- > >> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:28:32 -0400 >> From: David Bolter<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Mozilla and UUAG compliance >> To: Frank Hecker<[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> As far as I know, Mozilla is not actively participating in the >> development of the UAAG 2.0. While at CSUN I spoke with James Allan and >> Jeanne Spellman from the W3C, along with other browser developers, and >> there are concerns over the 'do-ability' of the specification as it >> currently stands. We should and hopefully will provide more feedback to >> the UAAG group soon... but with WAI-ARIA, and other FF accessibility >> development, UAAG participation/feedback might fall by the wayside. >> >> I don't know how FF rates relative to other browsers in terms of UAAG 1.0 >> >> David >> >> On 4/21/09 9:06 AM, Frank Hecker wrote: >> >>> Scott Rippon left the following comment on my blog post about the >>> high-level accessibility strategy: "How does Firefox rate against the >>> W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0? Should compliance with >>> these guidelines be in the strategy? Is Mozilla participating in the >>> development of the UAAG 2.0?" >>> >>> Could any of you comment on this? >>> >>> Frank >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-accessibility mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility >> > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. > Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility > Disability Resources and Educational Services > > Rehabilitation Education Center > Room 86 > 1207 S. Oak Street > Champaign, Illinois 61821 > > Voice: (217) 244-5870 > > WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ > WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/ > > >