Summary: mozilla.dev.accessibility - Oct 28-Nov 10, 2006
Announcements
- ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
- "Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) is a quarterly journal that publishes refereed articles addressing issues of computing as it impacts the lives of people with disabilities." Read more...
- Publication for the first issue is expected in Fall 2007.
- W4A 2007 First Call for Papers
- The Fourth International Cross-Disciplinary Cofnerence on Web Accessibility (W4A 2007)
- Co-Located with the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), in Banff, Canada.
- IMPORTANT DATES:
- TECHNICAL Submissions: Monday 19th Feb 2007
- TECHNICAL Paper Notification: Friday 16th March 2007
- COMMUNICATION Submissions: Monday 26th March 2007
- COMMUNICATION Paper Notification: Friday 06th April 2007
- ALL Camera ready Due: Monday 16th April 2007
- Conference Dates: Monday 07th and Tuesday 08th May 2007
- Notable keynotes representatives from W3C, IBM, University of Manchester, UK and Oxford Brookes University, UK.
- Read more...
- The Fourth International Cross-Disciplinary Cofnerence on Web Accessibility (W4A 2007)
Discussions
- Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
- Aaron Leventhal of IBM recently published a new article praising Firefox accessibility. The article goes into the history of accessibility in Firefox, details IBM's involvement and addresses some AJAX accessibility concerns. The article closes with a glimpse at the future of Firefox accessibility. Read more...
- Access Keys in Firefox 2
- Previous versions of Firefox used the <alt> key as a modifier. This has been changed to Alt+Shift for content accesskeys due to the "conflicts with UI mnemonics" according to Aaron Leventhal.
- This is reported to have broken accesskeys using numeric values. See bug 349716. Currently there is a work-around extension available at bug 357101 to temporarily solve this problem.
- Accessibility in ChatZilla
- Gijs Kruitbosch and Aaron Leventhal have proposed an accessibility project involving ChatZilla. Ideas include:
- Adding standardized shortcuts
- CLC-4-TTS and/or other screenreader integration
- Screenreader integration via an accessibility API
- Discussion on the use of the <Tab> key.
- Gijs Kruitbosch and Aaron Leventhal have proposed an accessibility project involving ChatZilla. Ideas include:
Meetings
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