Hi: If the screen reader companies use the UIA correctly they should actually work better with the new accessibility formats. The problem is that the legace code will likely be rendered useless for anything using UIA only. Also, MS has been drifting away from putting resources into accessibility ever since Gates left the company. Jaws uses the on screen model, or use to, and I am not sure that model will work for the types of painted controls in the new version of Visual Studio. Windoweyes uses another model and I am not sure how that will work but it might be better if they ever get all their code changed. Anyway, the new UI stuff will likely be a real headache for them until they get up to speed with developing the hooks and modules to handle the new process. In the mean time it is just use what works. The screen readers should get better unless they just decide to avoid developing for MS Products and that is not likely.
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To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:49 AM Subject: Re: VS2010 Poses Challenge Against Visually Challenged Yes ... you are right. I have also downloaded the portable version of NVDA and gave it a try on VS and it worked with code editor. In fact, the first two problems I mentioned previously does not seem to exist with NVDA — it is speaking the entire line and is very quick to react with grate predictability. So the problem now seems to be with Jaws — may be some scripting may help to solve it. On 2/19/10, Hrvoje Katić <hrvojekatic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
NVDA supports UI Automation and code editor in VS2010 is simply accessible with it. I tried loading a VB project and reading by line/word/character works well. Therefore, not sure why it doesn't work with JAWS 11 because JAWS11 also supports UI Automation. I didn't try RC, the last one I've tried is beta2. On 19.2.2010 10:25, Chris Hallsworth wrote:Oh wow! How do you mean you got it to work with NVDA? Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 19/02/2010 06:56, Hrvoje Katić wrote:I got code editor in VS2010 working with NVDA, so it's interesting why it doesn't work with JFW. On 19.2.2010 6:30, Varun Khosla wrote:Hi, I've downloaded and installed the update (october 26 release) consulting the Windows UI Automation blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/winuiautomation/archive/2009/09/16/announcing-the-platform-update-for-windows-vista.aspx Though the menus have started working with Jaws 11, yet the code window behaving the same — no improvements. I don't know — being my office computer always connected to internet — how Windows Update missed this release, although it frequently downloads some sort of updates. On 2/18/10, Hrvoje Katić<hrvojekatic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:They added UI Automation support to VS2010, so if you're using XP, it's recommended to install UI Automation update for XP and use JAWS 11 which supports UI Automation. On 18.2.2010 15:35, Varun Khosla wrote:Hi listers, What was expected has turned out to be true: MS has translated most of its VS user interface into WPF user interface in the latest release of its popular IDE — VS 2010. I have installed VS 2010 RC today and found the most basic things — the code editor — totally inaccessible with Jaws (10) due to being developed in WPF. Then, I installed jaws 11, hoping for some resolution, as it is boasted to support UIA (WPF accessibility API) — but it too turned out to be of little help — even menus which were accessible with Jaws10 became inaccessible. Although some sort of reading abbility is regained with the code editor — but not at all matching the standard we, as programmers, expect. Things are getting more and more challenging and difficult as MS continues to experiment with its UI.__________ 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__________ 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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