Deque Systems announced a breakthrough in web accessibility solutions by releasing a first-of-its-kind suite of add-ins, ribbon extensions, and Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 tools that ensure Section 508 compliance. This makes Deque the first company to produce a suite of tools that enable SharePoint users to avoid producing the host of compliance problems they normally create during web development activities. Until now, SharePoint users did not have tools that would let them create Section 508 compliant web content prior to publishing, leaving them to deal with web accessibility as a post-publication issue. Deque, a Microsoft Gold certified developer, created the suite of add-ins, ribbon extensions, and Web Parts for SharePoint to solve this problem at its root cause. With the Deque solution at their fingertips, content creators can now engage in “preventive authoring”, which is the highest industry best practice for accessible web development activities and workflow management. [...] → Continue Reading Deque Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Development Partner, Releases a First-Of-Its-Kind, Web Accessibility Solution for SharePoint
Deque Systems announced the global launch of Worldspace™ FireEyes™, an unprecedented, next generation Web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content within a web portfolio are compliant with accessibility standards such as Section 508, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0. Developers face real problems trying to make dynamic websites and applications, like Facebook, accessible to everyone. The current generation of tools on the market don’t work with JavaScript or dynamic, event-based page content. FireEyes enables developers of rich, interactive sites and applications ensure their creations are accessible to everyone. FireEyes is an easy-to-use plug-in that is fully integrated with one of the most popular and powerful Web development tools, FireBug, a Firefox extension. FireEyes works well with static sites plus includes features specifically designed to address the needs of dynamically updating content. It is the only tool on the market that is fully JavaScript aware that enables developers to [...] → Continue Reading Deque Releases Worldspace FireEyes, a NextGen Web Accessibility Tool Free to Developer Community
We have discovered and fixed an issue in Worldspace FireEyes that affected new users and made it impossible for them to use the product at all. The issue also caused Firebug to stop working. The fix has been deployed to the download site and can be downloaded from: http://fireeyes.dequecloud.com/fireeyes_download.php To check that you have the correct version installed go to Tools->Add Ons from within Firefox. You should see “Worldspace FireEyes 0.3.1″ as the installed version of FireEyes. If you do not see this, then you will need to download the latest release.