Accessibility/Testing
What's New?
Ongoing testing for Firefox 3.
Firefox 3.0 Accessibility Test Plan]
Coming soon: BFT for weekly trunk testing
Bugs of Note
All Platforms
bug 395400: Context Menus don't Read After 08-28-05 Build bug 395096: No Quick Way to Focus Remember Password Prompt bug 396005: Severe pageload performance degradation with accessibility enabled
Windows Only
bug 395081: AccessibleObjectFromPoint returns errors
Linux Only
bug 394689: cannot use setCaretOffset() to position caret at end of HTML entry bug 387273: Incorrect starting offset exposed when selection spans multiple objects
Environments
As UI changes land on trunk, we'll be conducting extensive testing in a variety of assistive technology environments. Current environments are:
- Windows
- Jaws screen reader with speech and braille
- Jaws screen reader with speech only
- Window-eyes screen-reader with speech only
- Zoomtext screen magnifier
- High-contrast theme
- Linux
- Orca screen magnifier
- Orca screen reader with speech and braille
You can help make Firefox 3 accessible to the broadest range of users possible by adding an environment to the above list. If you can help with testing of products for those with mobility related disabilities or additional screen magnifiers, please contact us.
Looking Ahead
Beta 1 of Firefox 3 will likely be released in early October. By that time it's important that we are able to test in as many environments as possible. The beta will be feature complete, so most of the UI should be landed by then. That will be when we'll need diligent testers to help us out by using the beta in their daily browsing, as well as running the forthcoming BFTs and Litmus test cases.
Final work is being done on the Accessibility Test Plan, and that will be our blueprint to test the UI of Firefox 3. Testing page rendering is more complex, which is why we'd like you to use the beta as your primary browser. That will be the best way to help us catch bugs on specific websites.