Re: VS2010 Poses Challenge Against Visually Challenged

  • From: Hrvoje Katić <hrvojekatic@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:56:51 +0100

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.




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