Fire Vox

An open-source, cross-platform screen reader implemented as a Firefox browser extension, created by Charles Chen as part of the CLC-4-TTS Suite. Fire Vox was notable as one of the earliest assistive technologies to support WAI-ARIA live regions, making it a key tool in the development and testing of accessible Ajax applications in the mid-2000s. It demonstrated that screen reader functionality could be built directly into a web browser rather than requiring a separate desktop application, foreshadowing later developments in browser-based accessibility support.