FW: Accessible User Agent Developments of Note

For some reason I'm still having issues posting from my work address.

 

From: Kelly Ford 
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:05 AM
To: 'w3c-wai-ua@w3.org'
Subject: Accessible User Agent Developments of Note

 

A couple of interesting news items in the accessible user agent world worth
mentioning here.

 

Yahoo Funding NVDA Development

 

I noticed on the NVDA blog that Yahoo is now providing them some funding.
You can read the details at
http://www.nvda-project.org/blog/YahooSupportsNVDA.

 

>From the blog posting, initial work will be for some further ARIA support
and table navigation in HTML documents.

 

Firefox 3.5 Accessibility Improvements

 

A blog post at
http://www.marcozehe.de/2009/06/26/new-accessibility-features-in-firefox-3-5
/ details many of the accessibility improvements expected in FF 3.5. Give
this a read.  Improved access to text attributes when editing, better DHTML
support, accessibility to parts of the HTML5 audio and video embedded
controls and improved ARIA support are a few of the items mentioned.

 

Kelly