Monotonous - Eitan's Pitch

In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API.

What We Did In today's nightly build of Firefox we introduced a simple three-state toggle for color contrast.

A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond.

Half of the DOM Web Speech API deals with speech synthesis.

I needed a meter to tell me what the air quality is like outside.

Aside from a handful of pinned tabs, I open a new tab for anything I need to do: search the web, file a bug, look up documentation, check on the news, the weather, you get the idea.

This is cross-posted from a Medium article by Akshitha Shetty, a Summer of Code student I have been mentoring.

I often need to quickly test a snippet of HTML, mostly to see how it interacts with our accessibility APIs.

(Warning: Modifying userChrome.css is not guaranteed to work between versions of Firefox and may lead to hard-to-diagnose bugs.

After porting Aaron’s NoCoffee extension to Firefox, I thought it would be neat to make a camera version of that.

Four years ago, on a snowy February day, Aaron Leventhal huddled in his unheated home and created a Chrome extension called NoCoffee.

If you use Firefox Nightly, you may notice that there is no more Accessibility section in the preferences screen, this change will arrive in Firefox 56 as part of a preferences reorg.

I recently set the Compact Dark theme as my default in Firefox.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath and fast forward four years when Trump’s administration will be roundly rejected.

Problem Statement: : In today’s fast-paced world, while juggling work and personal life, sometimes we need to know what time it is.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I wanted to try out a more hackable wifi plug.

Do you use Google Inbox?

Here in our house we keep our plants on the threshold of death.

In my last post, I covered the speech rate problem as I perceived it.

While working on the speech synthesis API in Firefox, I have been trying to figure out how to provide the most consistent experience across different desktop platforms.

Reader View in Firefox makes reading articles, stories and blog posts enjoyable.

For the last three years I have had the opportunity to send out a reminder to Mozilla staff that Martin Luther King Jr.

When we first made Firefox accessible for Android, the majority of our users were using Gingerbread.

Every committed Mozillian and many enthusiastic end-users will use a pre-release version of Firefox.

Now that eSpeak runs pretty well in JS, it is time for a Web Speech API extension!

td;dr Look!

The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. — Mozilla manifesto Mozilla invests in accessibility, because it’s the right thing to do.

An understated feature in desktop Firefox is the option to suppress the text and background colors that content authors choose for us, and instead go with the plain old black on white with a smattering of blue and purple links.

You’re welcome.

Anyone who comes from a pita-rich country to North America knows that you really can’t get your hands on good pita here.

There has been discussion recently if websites should have the ability to detect whether a visitor is using a screen reader.

You may have read the news that Ehsan will be end of lifing his github gecko mirror.

For a little while now, there has been an apps “Show and Tell” session hosted by Mozilla where app developers could showcase cool things they are working on.

This is a second post in a series about making Firefox OS apps accessible to blind users.

After my previous post, about labels, @ted_drake commented “Is there a reason why you didn’t simply add text to the button?”

This is the first post in a multi-part series where I will walk you through all the steps I took to make the Gaia Clock app accessible.

Hello!

I still exist.

The last post seemed to get some attention.

I wanted to give my one cent about the GNOME project, and where I think it could be successful.

I didn’t go!

I just landed the final set of patches that will enable explore by touch for Ice Cream Sandwich screen reader users.

I am in to the second hour of watching Firefox for Android compile, and I thought it would be a good chance to test this blog of mine.

Hi again.