Firebug Accessibility

• Grantee

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & The Paciello Group

• Location

  United States

• Support break-down

  1. 2009
     1. Phase One: $25,000
     2. Phase Two: $25,000
     3. Phase Three: $25,000
  2. 2010
     1. Phase Four: $25,000
     2. Phase Five: $20,009

  Total support

  $120,009

• Focus Area

  Open Source Technology

This grant provided funds to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and The Paciello Group in 2009 and 2010 for their joint work on Firebug accessibility. The goal was to mainstream accessibility for web applications by building accessibility testing functions and associated test cases into Firebug, a popular tool used by many web developers.