Panorama of the Accessibility Add-ons use in Firefox

This paper is based on the add-ons directed to accessibility, an essential requirement nowadays. The purpose is to analyze Firefox and its set of options that facilitates the navigation to specific groups of the society formed by disabled people. To facilitate the comprehension and analysis, these groups were divided in three types of deficiencies: visual, physical and cognitive. Thus, the Firefox add-ons were analyzed in order to verify its use and so, provide support related to accessibility issues. The points observed were classified according their utility, their relevance related to help the developers and the deficiency type addressed.