Fangs extension moving to Mozilla hosting

I discovered that my first post about the Fangs Screen reader emulator add-on was posted on November 22 in 2004. That is more than five years ago. At that time Mozilla hosting for add-ons was pretty rough and I couldn’t work out how to release updates. Alas, I hosted the add-on and updates on my own.

Yesterday I discovered that Mozilla add-on hosting has improved a lot so in the future you will find Fangs there. It should make updating a lot simpler. Version 1.06 adds compatibility with Firefox 3.6.

See Fangs screen reader emulator add-on over at Mozilla.org.

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  1. Craig says at 2010-01-18 18:01:

    I have also tried to install via sourceforge (adding both sf url and ss url to allow list) but it won;t install.

    Help!

  2. Richard says at 2010-02-03 15:02:

    Hi

    Which version of which screenreader does Fangs aim to emulate? Do you have a list of the differences between the output of Fangs and screenreaders ‘in the wild’?

    Thanks :-)

  3. Dave says at 2010-02-07 10:02:

    Hi, Thanks for making fangs available I use it for testing the accessibility of the websites I produce.

    One think I noticed is that the link list doesn’t pick up the title attribute in links. So if I use an image for a link, say the company logo linking to the home page, it shows up as blank in the link list. I read somewhere that screen readers will use the title attribute if there is no link text.

    Just an idea for the next version. Thanks again
    Dave

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