and firefox with jaws looks just like ie with jaws. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[email protected]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Opera (was Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover:)
On 28/12/08 22:31, Mike Arrigo wrote: > That is true, you often hear windows screen reader companies say > something like, "we've been working with this or that company." The > thing is, other than msaa and UI automation, there really aren't any > accessibility apis in Windows that I know of. UI Automation is intended to be suitable for out-of-the-box modern applications in the same way as Apple's Universal Access, but hasn't seen much adoption yet. IAccessible2 is an alternative API - it's a sort of hack to pass additional information via the MSAA that assistive technology already uses, effectively trying to standardize what browsers have to do to support Windows screen readers anyhow. That's what Mozilla is using, and the screen readers that support Firefox. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
