Worldspace FireEyes™ is a Firefox and Firebug plugin that allows developers, quality assurance engineers and designers to test and fix accessibility issues in both static and dynamic web content while they are developing it. Worldspace FireEyes supports Section 508, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 standards as well as some additional Deque custom rules for evaluating dynamic content and WAI-ARIA compliance. For example, Worldspace FireEyes can detect content insertions, track focus changes and inform the developer of situations that might warrant the use of aria-live, aria roles, keyboard accessibility and focus management.
Worldspace FireEyes also supports color contrast analysis – including situations where the background element and the foreground element do not share an ancestor-descendant relationship as well as situations where the background of an element is being set using images.
Other unique features include reading-order analysis with and without CSS, DOM mutation tracking, report filtering, interactive issue remediation, issue retesting, report exporting and script recording and playback. Worldspace FireEyes also has support for projects with Q.A., sandbox and production servers as well as for defining scope definitions to target analysis on sites that are generated using UI templates.
In addition to these unique capabilities, Worldspace FireEyes includes the complete set of rules found in the best of class Worldspace product – ensuring that sites that analyze cleanly in Worldspace FireEyes will also analyze cleanly when scanned using Worldspace’s Enterprise class analysis and reporting capabilities.
Licensing
By downloading and/or using Worldspace FireEyes, you agree to the Worldspace FireEyes license terms. These will be displayed to you for acceptance prior to the redirection toa one-time-use download URL.
Worldspace FireEyes is free. Free support is provided via the FAQ. Please contact a Deque sales representative if you would like enterprise-level support. Please contribute to the community through the Worldspace FireEyes Comments Page.
Dependencies
Worldspace FireEyes is a Firefox add-on that is also a Firebug extension. It requires Firefox 3.5.3 or higher and Firebug 1.5.3 or higher. It also requires Java 1.5 and up and requires Java to be enabled in the Firefox preferences. See the FAQ page if you have trouble getting Worldspace FireEyes to work.
Worldspace FireEyes is a Firebug extension. As such it only works on pages/sites for which Firebug has been enabled and it appears as a separate tab within the Firebug user interface. If you are an AT user, you will have to enable the Firebug “Accessibility” option in order to use Firebug with your AT. The Worldspace FireEyes user interface is implemented in 100% accessible HTML. However during testing, we discovered that JAWS and other ATs do not treat the HTML within an extension in the same way that they treat the same HTML in the browser. As such, there are some components of the user interface that are more difficult to use with AT than without. We plan to change the implementation to address this during the beta program.
Getting Started
Worldspace FireEyes starts up with all of the analysis and tracking options enabled. This may overwhelm you with information. The getting started video will introduce you to the most important user interface features that will allow you to customize the analyses that Worldspace FireEyes does and the information that it displays. We recommend that you take 5 minutes to view or listen to the video.
Download and Installation
Download the Worldspace FireEyes .xpi file (opens in new window) from within Firefox. Firefox should recognize the file and ask if you want to install the add-on. If Firefox does not recognize the file, it will prompt you to save the file. If this happens, save the file and the open it from Firefox using the File->Open menu item. Firefox will then ask you whether you want to install the plugin. After installing and restarting Firefox, Worldspace FireEyes will be ready to use.
Reporting issues
Please report any issues that you encounter with Worldspace FireEyes on the Worldspace FireEyes Bug Form and please contribute to the community on the Worldspace FireEyes Comments Page.