Dennis and Ross speak to Dylan Barrell (VP, Product Development) and Brian Kerr (Software Developer) of Deque Systems/Deque Labs. The main topic is the newly developed Worldspace FireEyes plugin for the Firefox browser which is being released in Beta status. It is a web accessibility tool that works in conjunction with the widely used Firebug Firefox extension. You can follow Deque Labs on Twitter.
Download Web Axe Episode 82 (Deque Labs FireEyes)
NOTE: As of June 28, the Worldspace FireEyes add-on has not yet been released. It’s planned for end of June.
UPDATE: On July 1, the Worldspace FireEyes beta is released! Read the FireEyes announcement.
Chatter & News
- Refresh Detroit: Drupal Meetup Summary
- Dennis Lembree presented “Making JavaScript Accessible” at the Bay Area Ajax and JavaScript Meetup (BayJax) June 15, 2010 at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California.
- Sign the online petition for screen reader accessibility for Google Chrome.
- Critiquing CA.gov Web Site Accessibility Page
- Dennis will be speaking at the Annual Assistive Technology Conference July 29 & 30, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
- Accessibility Viewer Application Beta “AViewer” from The Paciello Group; Blog on AViewer from Joe Dolson; ARIA, DOM
- How Government sites have and now use Skip Links
- Whitehouse.gov improving their accessibility