RE: Silverlight accessibility
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:21:18 -0400
Wouldn't that like, oh I don't know, require them to actually work with the
latest browser, first?
I only say this half jokingly. See firefox 3.6 issues.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:55 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Silverlight accessibility
How about orca and VoiceOver? Windows isn't the entire story.
On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> 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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