[nvda] Re: possible solution to inaccessible menus

As far as I could gather that was what was being explained to me but it is uncertain whether or not video intercept has anything to do with it. Most likely that is the case though. In any case hope that bit of info helps. One of the other problems that MSAA seems to have concerning menus is the little picture icons that programmers like to put in their menus. Those little icons seem to confuse MSAA in a way that make it not possible for screen readers such as narrator to see the text that follows the icon. A good example of this is an oversight in Skype 3.0 with the accessible menus. In the sub menu to change status, it does not remove the icons so it is still inaccessible to a MSAA reliant screen reader. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: possible solution to inaccessible menus



Hi John,

I have never heard of the rectangle property before.
What it sounds like is its using MSAA's location property to work out where on the screen the object is, and then use the video intercept to find the text at that point on the screen.
Are you able to give us a little more info on this property (as in where you found it, and what parameters it takes etc)? 

Thanks
Mick
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Greer" <jpgreer17@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: [nvda] possible solution to inaccessible menus
May have a solution to NVDA not speaking the menus in Skype before 3.0. There is something in MSAA properties called rectangles. For the Skype menus, as far as I know Jaws is able to pull the information it needs from the MSAA rectangle property. The rest of the MSAA info is showing as blank but the rectangle property has the text from the menu item written in it. Hope this bit of info can help. 
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