Indirect Manipulation

Last week was the Mozilla Accessibility Summit in Cambridge, MA. Shane Anderson gives a general overview, with links to Mark Pilgrim’s more detailed account of the presentations. I was particularly intrigued by something called Fire Vox, which is a Firefox extension developed by Charles Chen that can speak and navigate the web using the CSS 3 speech model. Apparently its multilingual support is quite advanced, as Pilgrim reports during a demo that Fire Vox “changed speech engines automatically and spoke each paragraph in its correct language.”

If you’re getting the sense that Firefox is positioning itself as a sort of vanguard to advance and cultivate the cause of web accessibility, you would be correct. As I’ve said over and over: when people who create electronic media cultivate an “open source nature, (a) focus on standards, and extensibility,” everybody wins.

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