Oh no it doesn't. At least as far as my knowledge extends, up to
version 9 of jaws, users of that program take on a substantially lower
quality web browsing experience when they trade IE for FF.
On Dec 28, 2008, at 3:23 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
and firefox with jaws looks just like ie with jaws.
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From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[email protected]>
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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.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
