Hi all! For Firefox OS 1.2, the accessibility team planned to provide a feature for developers to be able to test their web apps for accessibility. They will be able to test their web apps with the built-in screen reader.
So far the theory. Most of the stuff also is already in B2G, most importantly the Pico text-to-speech engine, which was put into Gonk a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, due to the tree closures around merge day, we were not able to land a final piece of that system[1] in time for Aurora 26. This speech service has been tested by me for the past couple of weeks, and is something only needed, and built, on Firefox OS. In addition, one more small fix[2] for our JavaScript screen reader (code-named AccessFu) is needed to be up-lifted in concert with the above change, and the related remaining bug fixes in Gaia. This is a heads-up so you are aware that accessibility needs these uplifts to complete this 1.2 feature. The alternative would be a major setback until the next Firefox OS release. And we came this close! :) Demand from the accessibility-related web developer community is also high for Firefox OS accessibility, so we do need to get started on this. Thanks! Marco 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904687 2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917399 _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
