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[oats-sig] Tab highlights in ff

Steve Lee steve at fullmeasure.co.uk
Thu Oct 19 12:14:53 BST 2006

Article: [oats-sig] Tab highlights in ff

The Hawkin toolbar extension for Firefox manages it somehow.

http://www.clippingdale.com/accessibility/hawking/hawking.html

Steve

On 10/19/06, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
> try: http://www.peepo.co.uk or even http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2
>
> iycbi the SVG1.1 standard doesn't even provide any standard method
> such as "border" to implement this.
> still we're getting there slowly, file a bug, add a comment or lobby
> the standards group.
> It helps if one studies the current level of understanding embodied
> in current guidelines which takes a while as they can appear
> impenetrable.
>
> more generally I believe the intention is that you create a personal
> style sheet.
>
> regards
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
>
>
> On 19 Oct 2006, at 08:24, Judge Simon wrote:
>
> What is also interesting is that I was trying to scan links in firefox
> yesterday using Tab, and there seems to be no way of highlighting
> them other
> than the light grey dotted box around them... Useless!  Unless anyone
> knows
> something I don't?  Can't seem to do it in any other browser either...
>
> One for the list for your Mozilla buddies maybe Steve?
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
> Clinical Scientist
> ACT
> 0121 627 1627 ex 53245
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
> Sent: 19 October 2006 06:58
> To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
> Subject: [oats-sig] WWAAC project information
>
>
> The WWAAC looks like being of interest for my work on making Firefox
> more
> accessible. Iniitally I'm interested in the switch operation but
> later the
> symbols and other features could be useful. Does anyone have the
> documentation deliverables or a project report as the site is down?
> Could
> they go on OATSoft?
>
> To be fair to the project it looks like they have lost control of the
> domain
> and I seem to remember my hoster (ukfsn.org) warning us that the
> rules for
> .com had changed so that you would lose them automatically if you did
> not
> contact the register when renewal was up. That really encourages cyber
> theft. That's not really an excuse though. I dont think it applies
> to .uk
>
> -- Steve Lee
> www.fullmeasure.co.uk
>
>
>
>


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-- Steve Lee
www.fullmeasure.co.uk


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