Last month, the recently opened brazilian W3C office made an interesting campaign on the UN International Day of Disabled Persons to generate awareness of the importance that is accessibility on the web. During that day, they modified their website in 3 different ways in order to try to simulate how people with certain accessibility needs view and interact with the web.

Having noticed that Mozilla is at a moment where there are quite a number of different opportunities to contribute and get involved, for users with all kinds of skills and interests (app developers, web developers, artists, designers), I set out to compile a list for the Mozilla Brazil community.

Alix pointed me to the contribute page, and there’s this page from the mozilla.com website, but I also wanted to list the timely events going on, because they’re hard to keep track if you don’t follow all the news pretty closely, and my friend Marcio commented that he believes that these kind of events have a great engaging component, which I absolutely agree: the challenge of a deadline together with a specific goal is a great motivation to get started.

I’ve been anxious to demonstrate the progress on our multitouch support for Firefox, and here’s a video which showcases some possible interactions and use cases for what web pages and webapps can do with a multitouch device.

We’re working on exposing the multitouch data from the system to regular web pages through DOM Events, and all of these demos are built on top of that. They are simple html pages that receives events for each touch point and use them to build a custom multitouch experience.

We’ll also add CSS support to detect touchscreen devices. Using the pseudo-selector :-moz-system-metric(touch-enabled), you can apply specific styles for your page only if it’s viewed by a touchscreen user. That, along with physical CSS units (cm or in), makes it possible to adjust your webapp for a touchscreen experience.

not a thorough list in any way, just some that I can remember now...

A very cool visualization of the addition of data through 2008 in OpenStreetMap.org

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Hello Posterous, are you up?When I finally get a new router and some free time to come back to the internet, first day the DSL is down, next day twitter + bloglines down...I hope gmail stays cool tomorrow! and i'm back to posting the interesting stuff I find around.Felipe.

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