Hi Dorene,To this day, I have not found a Silverlight applet that is usable with JAWS. I tried several with JAWS 10, and was hoping that improvement would now be noticeable with JAWS 11.
On a related matter, Adobe AIR is one of the main competitors to Silverlight as a platform for rich media, browser-based applications. Adobe AIR has been inaccessible to all screen readers because of no accessibility API. Supposedly, the public beta of AIR 2 introduces MSAA support. Has anyone tried this recently?
Jamal On 4/2/2010 12:03 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote:
Hi Jamal Do you know any other Silverlight sites you could check? Any chance the problem is site-specific and the developer just clobbered something critical by accident? DoreneC On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Jamal Mazrui<empower@xxxxxxxxx> 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 __________ 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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