Re: Mozilla and UUAG compliance

Sure it is something I have been meaning to do for awhile.

What do you have in mind?  Where would you see the conformance claim being posted?

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:43:32 -0400
>From: David Bolter <[email protected]>  
>Subject: Re: Mozilla and UUAG compliance  
>To: Jon Gunderson <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>
>   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
>
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