This year
Alex's blog: DOM Inspector as accessibility tool
by Monique
When you need to understand why your web page or your ARIA widget has accessibility issues then it's quite handy to inspect both DOM and accessible trees and what's most important to see *relation* between elements of these trees. That's what DOMi gives you.
2011
2010
WebAIM: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
by Monique
Based on some of the WCAG 1.0 checkpoints, this article aims to provide a quick outline of how Mozilla Firefox and the Web Developer Toolbar can help with these manual checks.
2009
About Fire Vox
by Monique & 2 others
Fire Vox is an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.
mindforks: Keyboard control of html5 video elements
by Monique
"HTML 5 introduces the video and audio media elements. Playback is manipulated by the user with browser supplied controls (indicated via the controls attribute), or with author supplied controls. In the case of browser supplied controls the current Firefox implementation is described here, and an idea for potentially improved keyboard support is suggested."
WebVisum
by Xavier Lacot
A firefox extension targeted at improving the accessibility of the websites. It includes a captcha reader, high contrast page viewing, link and focus highlighting, etc.
2008
Colour Contrast Analyser :: Firefox Add-ons
by julie (via)
A colour contrast analyser that examines the foreground and background colours of text nodes, and provides a report to see if they are correct according to AERT and WCAG's luminosity colour contrast algorithm.
ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications - MDC
by nhoizey & 1 other
ARIA, formerly known as DHTML accessibility, is a standard being developed at W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
2007
WAT-C Web Accessibility Tools Consortium
by sebastien
The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C] provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium is a collaboration of some of the world's leading accessibility practitioners, founded by Accessible Information Solutions (Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), Wrong HTML (Japan), and Juicy Studio (UK).
2006
Voir le web comme un robot avec Firefox et la barre Web Developer
by -Nicolas- & 1 other
Plusieurs outils permettent de simuler approximativement la vision des robots d'indexation, par exemple Spider Simulator. Ce type d'application présente des avantages : elles sont accessibles en ligne et faciles à utiliser. Mais elles ne permettent p...
