Fire Vox

Fire Vox

Fire Vox is a free and open source extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that transforms it into a self-voicing application. Easy to install and operate, it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It can work independently, or together with screen readers such as Orca. Since its debut in 2005, Fire Vox has garnered an increasing amount of interest in the accessibility community. It has several features not found in commercial screen readers, such as the ability to handle CSS 3 Speech Properties (resulting in it being cited as "the only implementation of aural style sheets" [cite book |last=Jim Thatcher, Michael R. Burks, Patrick H. Lauke, Christian Heilmann, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Bruce Lawson, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bob Regan, Richard Rutter, Mark Urban, Cynthia Waddell |title=Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance |publisher=Friends of ED |date=2006 |id=ISBN 1-59059-638-2 ] ). It has also received mentions in several articles related to Firefox and/or web accessibility and even a mention in a techniques document from the W3C. As of February 2007, Fire Vox supports WAI-ARIA markup for AJAX live regions. [cite web |url=http://juicystudio.com/article/wai-aria-live-regions.php |title=WAI-ARIA Live Regions |accessdate=2008-01-09]

In November 2007, a new version of Fire Vox was released with built in support for AxsJAX scripts. AxsJAX is a JavaScript framework that injects WAI-ARIA based accessibility into AJAX applications, and these scripts can be used without needing to be added to the web sites directly. These scripts are essentially Greasemonkey scripts for accessibility. [cite web |url=http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-axsjax-access-enabling-ajax.html |title=Introducing AxsJAX -- Access-Enabling AJAX |accessdate=2008-01-09]

References

External links

* [http://firevox.clcworld.net/ The Fire Vox Homepage]
* [http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/firefox.html Firefox: An open source accessibility success story]
* [http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/WWW/Design_and_Development/Accessibility Web Developer Resource Index: Accessibility]
* [http://juicystudio.com/article/providing-choices.php Assuring E-Accessibility: Providing Choices]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/ Techniques for WCAG 2.0]
* [http://juicystudio.com/article/wai-aria-live-regions.php WAI-ARIA Live Regions]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:WAI_ARIA_Live_Regions AJAX:WAI ARIA Live Regions]
* [http://code.google.com/p/google-axsjax/ AxsJAX Project]


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