Then we all have to petition the most prominent companies to get their heads away from old technologies. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Tseng Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 6:40 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Need Help to Provide Feedback to a Developer Wow, that's kind of a blanket statement... It happens that the slow moving assistive technology screen reader market loves MSAA/IAccessible2 and are not likely to move to native UIA implementations for some time yet. This is not to mention the slow support for UIA on the application developer side... A few years down the line maybe, but so far away that it's not within sight. On 5/29/11, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's right. Preferably UIA since MsAA is so done with and out of date. > > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.J. > Zufelt > Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 2:29 PM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Need Help to Provide Feedback to a Developer > > Generally, what you have here is a custom UI control. The developer > needs to leverage either MSAA or UIA in order to provide programmatic > accessibility information about the role, state and properties of the > control to assistive technology. > > > Everett Zufelt > http://zufelt.ca > > Follow me on Twitter > http://twitter.com/ezufelt > > View my LinkedIn Profile > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > > > > On 2011-05-29, at 2:25 PM, Roopakshi Pathania wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I love playing with apps and then checking in with developers to make > the app in question completely accessible. > > One such app that I recently tried is called Listary. The left hand > side list is not navigable with a screen reader and the developer is > willing to make it accessible. > Listary is a great app. I'm pasting the URL followed by the > developer's comment I'm looking for some easy tips to address this > specific issue that can be passed on to the developer. > Do check the app out. > http://www.listary.com/ > > The left panel in Listary Options outputs strings like "Recent" and > "Keyboard and Mouse" directly to screen. This makes some custom > effects possible, but other applications like a screen reader will not > be able to retrieve these strings. > > > Sent from my Lenovo ThinkPad > > > __________ 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