[oats-sig] Fwd: Accessibility of Firefox extensions

Call to help improve accessibility of Firefox addons.

Steve

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From: Aaron Leventhal <aaronleventhal at moonset.net>
Date: 2008/6/23
Subject: Accessibility of Firefox extensions
To: dev-accessibility at lists.mozilla.org

Marco and I are collecting feedback from the community regarding the
accessibility of Firefox extensions.

If you use Firefox extensions and have noticed a11y issues, please let
us know here. We can use the information for a couple of things:
- to notify specific extension developers (although often anyone can do
that on mozdev.org)
- to write an article on the top a11y issues in extensions and what the
easy fixes are
- to notify any extension code reviewers (I think Mozilla has a process
now, but I could be wrong)

One common issue may be when extensions but "placeholders" in content
that can only be clicked, which activate other content. Another common
issue may be items that are put in toolbars or on the status bar but are
not keyboard accessible.

Likewise, if there is an extension that you feel gives Firefox
accessibility an edge when it is installed, let us know that as well.

- Aaron
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