RE: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd)
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:18:08 -0400
Dear Elf,
I'm going to tell Santa on you.
Jim
Jim Homme,
Usability Services,
Phone: 412-544-1810
Skype: jim.homme
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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Elf
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 2:37 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd)
*sigh* someone hand me a brick and point me at the FS big wigs, no actually,
make that a battering ram, hitting them in the head with a brick would have
little effect obviously!
elf
"Three things that should NEVER! be brought together; a laptop computer, a
full cup of coffee, and a sneeze!"
- Unknown Author-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd)
> 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
>>
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