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Marco Zehe
Personal blog · marcozehe.dewebdesign
Marco Zehe writes Marco's Accessibility Blog, a personal blog at marcozehe.de about web and design. Since 2008, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Making the Firefox Developer Tools Accessible”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Marco Zehe's personal blog about accessibility and other tech
Most-linked posts?
- Making the Firefox Developer Tools Accessible3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-29
- The web accessibility basics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm also a blind software developer. I scrape by building apps[0] and services[1] for other blind people, and running the occasional crowdfunding[2] campaign. First off, you're 100% correct when you talk about how devtools are inaccessible. This problem is an historic one, stretching back as far as early versions of Visual Studio, or other early IDEs on Windows. Basically, the people who build the tools make the too…
Comment linking /2016/01/26/making-the-firefox-developer-tools-accessible/
on “Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?”Submitted JavaScript is not an enemy of accessibility as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe internet suggests that the official desktop/web client is not particularly usable with a screen reader: https://www.marcozehe.de/2016/01/16/status-of-the-accessibil... https://slackhq.com/designing-slack-for-everyone-456002920bf... (talks mostly about the mobile clients, which were designed later) Maybe this has changed recently?
Comment linking /2016/01/16/status-of-the-accessibility-of-slack/
on “Slack is the opposite of organizational memory”Submitted Introducing the Accessibility Inspector in the Firefox Developer Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMarco Zehe is an Accessibility QA Engineer at Mozilla, he is blind, and he writes on his own site. Two years ago, he wrote a post, "The Firefox developer tools Inspector Panel is becoming accessible" [0]. I don't know how things have progressed since then and I wonder if there are problems particular to Firefox on Linux and Orca, as opposed to other combinations like Firefox for Windows with JAWS or NVDA. [0] https:…
Comment linking /2016/05/24/the-firefox-developer-tools-inspector-panel-is-becoming-accessible/
on “Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector”Submitted Making the Firefox Developer Tools Accessible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAny idea what the state of accessibility would be at the welcome screen if I ordered this phone? The last update I saw is several months old. http://www.marcozehe.de/2014/02/23/accessibility-in-firefox-...
Comment linking /2014/02/23/accessibility-in-firefox-os-an-update/
on “Pre-orders start today for Flame, the Firefox OS developer phone”Submitted Improvements in accessibility for Mac OS X in Firefox 41 as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I think it would be a grave mistake to simply give up on mixing code with different trust labels in the same address space. Apart from having to redesign lot of software, that would set a hard lower bound on the cost of transitioning between trust zones. It would be much better if hardware mitigations can be designed to be usable within a single address space. I wonder what software redesigns he has in mind. As fa…
Comment linking /2017/09/29/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/
on “Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations”Submitted Advancements in the accessibility of Facebook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching to Android full-time – an experiment (by a sight-impaired user) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced ARIA tip #1: Tabs in web apps | Marco’s accessibility blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The web accessibility basics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking at the accessibility of the IRCCloud service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WAI-ARIA for screen reader users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is WAI-ARIA, what does it do for me, and what not? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why accessibility APIs matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility support for Android in mobile Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rediscovering blindness products as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox 60 and JAWS 2018 back in good browsing conditions together as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft are stepping up their accessibility efforts considerably as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Firefox developer tools accessible as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The web accessibility basics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social networks and accessibility: A not so sad picture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting the “Switch to Android full-time” experiment (on accessibility) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why screen reader detection on the web is a bad thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web accessibility showcase: Microsoft Office web apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter now has a dedicated accessibility team as a story · 1 points
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