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 [...]
The feedback we have received so far on the beta 1 for Worldspace FireEyes has been great. I have received comments ranging from “Very impressive!!” and “This is very easy to use, the reading order analysis is great and I was able to immediately determine the reason for the issue” to “This finds things that [...]
No one I know wants to create an inaccessible site. So why are so many sites inaccessible?
Our customers tell us that the two main reasons are:
Their web developers were not trained in accessibility, and
Their web developers don’t have easy-to-use tools.
At Deque, we see this double whammy — lack of training and lack of tools — [...]
I am very pleased to announce that the Worldspace FireEyes (this is the official name of the product we have been referring to as “FireEyes” during development) Beta 1 was released today. Although we have been doing research and design on the algorithms and techniques since 2009, we started development in earnest in February [...]
Web applications use content from templates and common UI elements, as a developer involved in development of a large site, you are likely only responsible for a portion of the content being displayed on the page at any one time
This demo shows how FireEyes can be used to target specific areas of an application’s UI [...]
This video demonstrates some of the powerful script recording and replay capabilities by scripting the posting of a comment to Facebook and then the deletion of that comment again.
Facebook is the perfect application for showing how powerful this capability is because all of the content that Facebook displays is generated by JavaScript and element id’s [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 26, 2010, RESTON, Va. –
Deque Systems announced today that it is developing a next generation web accessibility tool to help web developers find accessibility issues easily, fix them rapidly and establish the test scaffolding to ensure that their application stays accessible and compliant with web standards like Section 508 and WGAG [...]
This ain’t your older brother’s web any more
Web pages used to be relatively static affairs, some were generated by server side applications, some stored in content management systems. But because of the browser wars, developers were loathe to use too much JavaScript for fear of having products that would only work for half of their [...]