At education.au we’ve had an ongoing project to develop a tool to do accessibility checking for learning management systems behind logins.
Most existing accessibility tools use 3rd party webservices to do analysis of websites, and these services cannot see behind secure logins.
The education.au Accessibility Toolbar is a Firefox plugin which does accessibility checking on the client, alleviating this problem.
There is still a significant amount of work to be done, but the toolbar was demoed to the company last week, and I’ve recorded a screencast to show it to a wider audience.
Click To Play(please visit website if this doesn’t work in your blog reader)
The team of Matt, James and Ben has done an excellent job with this project, since writing a Firefox plugin is a challenging technically.
Update: I should have also mentioned the invaluable support that Andrew from Vision Australia has give us on this project.
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Will the browser work in Netscape?
I’ve recently switched over and all the firefox 2.0 plugins work with Netscape, will this as well?
Cheers,
Samantha Jones
Hi Samantha,
It might work on Netscape, but we won’t be testing on that platform at the moment.
Hi Samantha,
I realise you wrote your reply 7 months ago, but Netscape is now not only considered a dead product by many, but is now officially dead.
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/
If the Accessibility Toolbar won’t work in Netscape for you, maybe try the HTML validator Firefox plugin:
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
Cheers
Mark
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