New Toys
We’ve just finished adding some new pages to AccessFirefox.org that we hope will encourage people to help us to promote awareness of Firefox accessibility and Access Firefox.
The first section is a Bookmark Us page that allows visitors several options for bookmarking Access Firefox. Visitors can add the site to StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Google bookmarks, Facebook, and others.
Next we made a Tell a Friend page where visitors can e-mail a link to Access Firefox to a friend.
We also created a Link to Us section where we’ve provided simple copy and paste code for anyone to grab that will display one of two graphics, or a simple text link.
Finally we’re offering a link to the Access This! news feed.
Feel free to help out by using any of the new features.
Bookmark Us
Tell a Friend
Link to Us
News Feed
Thanks to Otto de Voogd and Michael Buckley for their help with the JS.
Access Firefox on Download.com
I’m very pleased to have discovered a mention of Access Firefox on download.com in their feature Top 11 Firefox themes. Peter Butler writes about HiVisGnome Jumbo and describes it “as part of the Access Firefox project” and provides a link to the site.
It is indeed true that Ed Hume created HiVisGnome Jumbo and HiVisGnome Big for Access Firefox per my request back in October of 2005 making them the very first Firefox themes created specifically for persons with disabilities.
Now the article goes back to November 29, 2007, but I just discovered it in my StatEye (free and open source web site traffic analysis software) report as a referring URL to AccessFirefox.org. Download.com is sending us visitors and we greatly appreciate that.
If you have a blog or web site, please help us out by mentioning AccessFirefox.org or by linking to the site via a button or text link. You’ll be promoting both Firefox and Firefox accessibility at the same time.
Feel free to hotlink to our promotional graphics that can found on the Helping Others page.
We’ve provided copy and paste code to make that easy for you.
Thanks for reading.
Access Firefox Logo Gets Tweaked
All in all I’m pretty happy with the design of Access Firefox that was created by Michael Buckley who is also responsible for the site’s coding. However I’ve never really been content with the Access Firefox logo that I created, but it’s been extremely difficult to come up with a logo that represents Firefox accessibility. For the original Access Firefox logo, I used the standard symbol for accessibility which is the white wheelchair graphic. The site will eventually provide content for different disabilities, but for now and currently, the content is mostly for persons with visual impairments so I went with the eye logo. I was fairly happy when I originally created it but it lacked depth and character and it had to be changed. Today I finished tweaking the eye logo. I feel that it now has more dimension to it and I’ll stick with this one until something better comes along and you can help with that.
Contact me if you have any ideas for a logo for Access Firefox that represents Firefox accessibility.
This is really tough because legally, we cannot use the Firefox logo as part of a logo of our own.
We can use the Firefox globe without the fox on it.
So maybe you have an idea that represents access to something like a key, an open door, something, see I’m stuck.
Ken
