Mozilla Firefox customisation
3 Keywords: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Accessibility
Mozilla Firefox customisation pages have many useful add-ons available and there are groups working on accessibility options.
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. Mozilla offer tips for zooming, adding tabs and making favourite sites available instantly.
- 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.
Strategies using this technology
- Quick colour changes
- Facebook with MSN
- Tabs in a browser for quick access
- Accessibar in Firefox for web page changes
- Keyboard access to edit boxes in forums
- Digital versions of information easier than books
- Font changed to sans serif Verdana
- Mouse wheel and keyboard shortcut for zooming
- Pen flicks or gestures on the TabletPC
- Firefox add-ins and adaptations
- Large fonts, extra time and Google toolbar for research online
- Firefox - Enabling text menus
