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Quick Facts

Some interesting facts about browsers.

Firefox:

1. Does not support Alt tags. They use Title tags instead.

The following accessibility functions are noted as of March, 2009.

The only browser to have a built-in screen reader is Apple's Safari.

IE 7 and above, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 and above, and Opera 9.6 and above all have an overide/change color scheme function.

The following browsers have built-in magnifiers or zoom functions.

IE 7.0 and above.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 and above.

Opera 9.6 and above.

Apple Safari up to 3.0 does not or Google Chrome up to 1.0 does not.

Accessibility Help Page

Here is where you can get help and the proper tools for your browser to enable accessibilty features if you do not already have them.

First what you need to do is go to this site and check to see what extensions and plugins need updating in FireFox.

Firefox plugin check and update page.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

After that goto this link to get and install any missing accessibilty plugins and extension you may require.

Firfox accessibility extensions page
http://www.accessfirefox.org/Firefox_Accessibility_Extensions.php

Here are the direct links for both the Zoom Buttons and Screen Reader for Firefox.

Firefox accessibility extensions links.

Page zoom buttons for Firefox.
http://www.accessfirefox.org/Page_Zoom_Buttons.php

Reader for Firefox
http://www.accessfirefox.org/Reader.php

This page for Firefox gives you accessibility feature guides and tutorials for Firefox.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Accessibility

Google Chrome accessibility features.

Got to this page if you are using Chrome and need added features.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/low-vision-support

This page will give you the required screen readers for many of the available browsers.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/screen-reader-support

Opera Browser.

This page gives you tutorials and guides on how to adjust the available features in Opera.

http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/164/

Finally the well renowned Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

This page has about the only extra add-on available for IE its called the Web Accessibility toolbar for IE 2011.

http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=614