Strategies
- Subject specific portals and Google short cuts
- Facebook with MSN
- Monitor in portrait mode and high resolution
- Firefox - Enabling text menus
- Changing font and icon sizes in Windows
- Tabs in a browser for quick access
- Opera mouse gestures and clicks
- Videos online for keeping up to date with research
- Podcasts to supplement note taking
- Google Book Search
- Large fonts, extra time and Google toolbar for research online
- Keyboard access to edit boxes in forums
- Pen flicks or gestures on the TabletPC
- Mouse wheel and keyboard shortcut for zooming
- Literature Network for quotes and references
- Blogging as a framwork for writing
- Slowed text to speech and screen shot reader
- WebVisum to get round captchas
- Spotify for helping with concentration
Mozilla Firefox
4 Keywords: Mozilla Firefox, Browser, Accessibility, Web
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that works across all platforms and allows for a wide range of personalisation when surfing web pages. There are many useful add-ons available and there are groups working on accessibility options
The add-ons that can be used for checking web page accessibility include Accessibar, Web developer's toolbar, WebAIM WAVE and to change the background colours of web pages, font types and sizes as well as colour and text to speech it may help to add the Firefox Accessibility Extension.
Links
- Mozilla Accessibility Projects and Grants
This is the Mozilla wiki for accessibility projects where ideas and grants are on offer. There are links to other pages including those related to ARIA and AJAX.
- Accessibar Firefox accessibility extras
"Accessibar is a toolbar extension for Firefox which aims at providing various accessibility features for users who could benefit from them. These features primarily focus on the dynamic manipulation of the visual display of the web page in addition to the integration of a text to speech reader which can read out loud the browser's user interface as well as web page content."
- Mozilla Firefox Accessibility Extension
The Firefox Accessibility Extension has been developed by the Illinois Center for Information Accessibility The Extension makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. Developers can use the extension to check their use of structural and styling markup that support functional web accessibility.
- Google toolbar for Firefox
Adds a series of buttons to the Mozillar Firefox toolbar. It provided instant access to Google search, mail, spell checker, word translator and many more useful features.
- Accessible Calendars for Blogs and Websites
"Calendars are a useful and attractive way to visually organize events on a webpage or blog. However, calendars are often inaccessible due to their reliance on visual rather than verbal cues."
- How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers
"So you have a blog, and you're worried that it might not be accessible to people with disabilities? Don't worry! A few simple changes can increase your blog's potential readership."
- Accessibar review
'Tim O’Brien Photos - A blind photographer's exploration of his vision through photography and accessibility'. This is a blog with many tips and tricks to help those with visual impairment and in one Blog he reviews Accessibar and several other Firefox add-ins for the toolbar.
- WebVisum review
Marco's Accessibility Blog reviews WebVisum and discusses issues around captchas and poor labelling of forms etc.
