Aaron Leventhal, Web accessibility architect, IBM, have written an article on Firefox titled : An open source accessibility success story. In this article Aaron explores the IBM's Involvement, Desktop "Look And Feel" on the Web, The AJAX Revolution, The current state, new Directions for Firefox and how to get Involved. Aaron is currently leading the work to make Firefox accessible on Linux, and advises the W3C Protocols and Formats committee on dynamic content accessibility. Prior to joining IBM, he was the accessibility architect for Mozilla development at Netscape.

Mozilla and Firefox are gradually becoming a core part of the future of web accessibility, where the open source license is a huge advantage. The Firefox accessibility effort has now truly achieved ignition, not only with base accessibility support in Firefox, but also by leading the future of accessibility for dynamic web applications. The collaborative nature of open source is impacting the future of both web and desktop accessibility standards, and bringing people together in an effort to go beyond the status quo. In this recent article, Aaron Leventhal discusses the exciting past and present of Mozilla accessibility, including the grant program. Since it was written, the community had a chance to meet up and plan the next year of work -- at the Mozilla Accessibility Developer Summit