Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox

Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Menu and Toolbar Additions

The Accessibility Toolbar adds two drop down menu items to the main Mozilla toolbar - Accessibility and Navigation. A separate toolbar is added below all the current visible toolbars which contains drop down menus for the Accessibility Toolbar features.

The Accessibility Toolbar is located below all other visable toobars

Try this feature: View the dropdown menus for the Accessibility and Navigation menu items and Toolbar Buttons. Practice enabling and disabling the visibility of the menu items and the Accessibility Toolbar on this page.

Accessibility Menu Item

The ACCESSIBILITY dropdown menu accesses the various toolbar functions that are available. These functions are Information, Images, Style, Events, and Options. Each of these items will open a submenu for additional choices. Each of these choices are highlighted in a separate section.

Access Toolbar features from the Accessibility Menu

Navigation Menu Item

The NAVIGATION dropdown menu access the various information windows about the page in the browser. This menu also lists the Shortcut Keys to accesses the information windows and the option to disable the Access Keys feature for the Toolbar.

Access Information Windows from the Navigation menu

Enabling/Disabling Menu Items

The visibility of these two menu items can be turned on and off through the Options button dropdown menu on the Accessibility Toolbar. When a checkmark is visible next to the SHOW MENUS item, the Accessibility and Navigation menu items are visible.

Main menu items are visible when there is a check next to show menus on the  ptions dropdown menu

To remove the menu items, select the SHOW MENUS item and the checkmark will disappear. When there is no checkmark next to Show Menus, then the Accessibility and Navigation menu items will not be visible.

Main menu items are not visible when there is no check next to show menus on the Options dropdown menu

Accessibility Toolbar:

The Accessibility Toolbar automatically attaches to the toolbar area of the browser window below all visible toolbars. The Toolbar contains drop down menus for Information, Navigation, Images, Style, Events, and Options. This toolbar also includes Zoom In and Zoom Out keys. Each of these choices are highlighted in a separate section.

Accessibility Toolbar attaches under the lowest visible toolbar

The visibility of the Accessibility Toolbar is controlled by the Toolbar Selection command located under View on the main menu.

Turn the toolbar on and off from the toolbar option under view