Sharing this on the ProgrammingBlind list as well. Jamal ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:40:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Silverlight accessibility Good point, since I was using IEMax and FxMax scripts, and although they generally inherit default settings, there might be a difference. I have now checked with the FS supplied scripts and found no difference. I then searched through all JAWS 11 documentation for the word "Silverlight" and found no mention of it, so my current conclusion is that the latest JAWS does not support Silverlight. This is disappointing since Microsoft has tried to implement UIA in Silverlight. Based on another message in this thread, that implementation may still need some work by Microsoft, but NVDA illustrates how much client access is possible. In general, it seems that NVDA is significantly ahead of the commercial screen readers in supporting state-of-the-art accessibility APIs, including UIA, IAccessible2, and ARIA. It appears that other screen readers are being held back by legacy code that is difficult to update appropriately for the best APIs available. Jamal On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, G-Dog wrote:
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:55:36 -0600 From: G-Dog <lucifur@xxxxxxx> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Silverlight accessibility Jamo, Have you tried using the default scripts in IE and FF? Just a thought from a pedestrian...G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> To: <JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:54 AM Subject: [jawsscripts] 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 __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts __________� Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts
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