The message with my screen reader comparisons was included (and still is at the bottom of this message). It was not far down, so if they had real interest in the topic, it would have been found. In fact, the only message in this chain that explained the JAWS problem also made comparisons with Window-Eyes and NVDA.
Unfortunately, however, it appears that those comparisons were ignored. No explanation was offerred as to why JAWS works worse than other screen readers with Silverlight. Also, no explanation was given as to why JAWS does not work with other Silverlight controls besides the TextBox one that was mentioned.
Jamal On 4/6/2010 8:52 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
Did you respond with how NVDA works with it or how windoweyes at least does more than jaws? Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:58 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fwd: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) Here is the response I got from FS on this topic. Jamal -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 23:55:02 -0400 From: Freedom Scientific Support<support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To:<support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organization: Freedom Scientific To:<empower@xxxxxxxxx> CC: EResponse<E_Response@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dear Jamal Thank you for contacting Freedom Scientific technical Support. SilverLight's accessibility does not include support for text edit areas. This is the reason for the JAWSR screen reading software issues with SilverLight. If I can be of any additional assistance to you, feel free to email me back. Be sure to include all previous correspondence pertaining to this matter when replying to this message so that we might better assist you. Regards, Mr. Tracey Jackson, Technical Support Specialist Freedom Scientific Phone support: 727 803 8600, option #2 E-mail Support: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Visit our website at: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:empower@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:43 PM To: Freedom Scientific Technical Support; Eric Damery Subject: Re: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:10:03 -0500 From: qubit<lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Silverlight accessibility Hi Jamal -- Perhaps this is an afterthought, but have you forwarded this information to FS support? (They have enough to deal with with the stuff I have forwarded to them, but maybe this is something that needs to be addressed.) --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui"<empower@xxxxxxxxx> To:<JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;<ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:54 AM Subject: Silverlight accessibility FYI: I just tried the following Silverlight site with the latest versions of three screen readers: http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=wisyou It seemed to work well with NVDA 2010.1, worked partially with Window-Eyes 7.2 public beta 1, and did not work at all with JAWS 11.0.756. I thought one of the major feature enhancements of JAWS 11 is support for UIA, the accessibility API that Silverlight uses instead of MSAA (Silverlight controls are a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation, the successor to Windows Forms in the .NET Framework). Is some kind of manual configuration needed to make the latest JAWS work with Silverlight? I tried both IE 7 and Firefox 3.6. Jamal __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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