Speclenium has come of age…
It is now possible to extract pretty interesting comparisons of browser accessibility API implementations.
Here are a two comparisons between Firefox nightly builds, and Internet Explorer 8 beta 2.
The comparison view only works on Firefox, I do not dare try it on anything else.
Here is comparison of the browser chrome between Firefox 3.0.4 and Firefox nightly.
I hope you have as much fun comparing as I did!
[...] As for requirement number 5. It took a lot of effort to find a way to make a comprehensible comparison between two complex accessible object trees. Ultimately I think that the end result was worth the effort, which consisted of algorithmic work based on a paper titled Change detection in hierarchically structured information, and of UI work. You could see the results in my previous post. [...]