Accessibility

Mozilla Accessibility Wiki

General

• • Meetings
  • Get involved
  • Bugmasters/Bug_days/a11y for accessibility bug triage
  • Development Center - documentation on various accessibility initiatives, XUL authoring guidelines, ARIA, AT-SPI, web development and more
  • Learning Disabilities - resources related to learning disabilities
  • Social - social media accounts, campaigns, and options for users.
  • Testing Center - the latest on Mozilla accessibility testing, test plans, environments, top bugs, and more.

Sections

• • Firefox Android Accessibility - FAQ and info.
  • Mac Accessibility - home page of accessibility support on Mac.
  • Windows Accessibility - this FAQ explains how makers of Windows screen readers, voice dictation packages and magnification software can support Gecko-based software. The article is targeted on MSAA.
  • XForms Accessibility - AT API support for XForms elements.

Also see all subpages of this page for any pages that should be added to this list.

Drafts

• • ARIA
    • ARIA Type Attributes - proposed ARIA data type attributes to object attribute mapping
    • AJAX: WAI ARIA Live Region Library
    • ARIA conflicts with native markup - proposed extension of section 2.3 of ARIA implementation guide
  • Accessible Tables
    • Table Implementation - implementation problems overlook (a bit obsolete)
    • ARIA grid/treegrid - implementation of ARIA grid/treegrid
  • Custom widgets accessibility - accessibility injection into XBL
  • Plugins accessibility - thoughts how to improve plugin accessibility
  • Editor behaviour - editor behaviour on user input when controls are contained inside of editable area
  • Mutation event coalescing
  • HTML5 form enhancements
  • IA2 1.3 - next IAccessible2 proposal
  • New architecture - proposed gecko a11y architecture
  • MathML - MathML accessibility changes draft
  • Web Accessibility API - web accessibility API draft

Drafts Replaced by Specs

• • Attributes - proposed AT API attribute support.
  • Text Attributes - proposed AT API text attribute support.
  • IA2 to Gecko - interface mapping of IAccessible2 to Gecko API
    • Table Headers - IA2's rowHeader/columnHeader implementation

Project Coordination

• • Proposed Accessibility Strategy
  • Potential Accessibility Projects
  • Mozilla 2 accessibility plans
  • 2009 accessibility plans
  • Firefox3 - the list of meta bugs targeted to Firefox 3
  • 2012 Activities - big picture of ongoing activities in accessibility core
  • ARIA coordination
  • Video accessibility
  • Math accessibility
  • CSUN 2009 - Mozilla CSUN 2008 Activities