RE: Mozilla and UUAG compliance

"Jim Allan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
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Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Jim Allan, Co-Chair W3C-WAI User Agent Working Group

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of David Bolter
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:43 AM
To: Jon Gunderson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mozilla and UUAG compliance

I imagine you could put something on the extension page at uiuc, and we 
could blog about it, maybe write an e-zine article etc.

The whole customization via extension angle is interesting to me.  I 
think the customizability of the FF platform is something that could 
breath life into efforts like Raising The Floor.

D

On 4/22/09 9:42 AM, Jon Gunderson wrote:
> 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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>> Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>      
> 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/
>
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