Silverlight accessibility

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:54:18 -0400 (EDT)

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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