Hi Thomas,
I see what you mean, but now I wonder...
Firstly, why use Video Intercept or something else at all?
My Desktop Computer has an NVIDIA Graphics card. Every year the NVIDIA
software with drivers gets updated several times.
If I update the Software and restart my machine as part of the process, JAWS
comes with a warning and the prompt to install the graphics driver aka.
Video Intercept. If I cancel this dialogue, JAWS won't read anything,
allthough I have a graphics card with its corret drivers installed, but if I
install Video Intercept, then another identical card shows up in the control
panel...
So, If MSAA and other features are used for information gathering, why do
most commercial screen readers force you to install something like Video
Intercept at all?
And about controls, even within Windows Spin Boxes or Spin Edits (have
forgotten, which term is correct) are present within the dialogue where you
set date and time in Windows up to XP.
But the list of controls JAWS knows out of the box is limited to not more
than thirty entries...
But surely new programs or operating systems have more controls than the
ones JAWS knows for example.
So the question remains why this list of controls is not expanded or why it
is so hard to recognice similar controls automatically.
As I said before, whatever type of editable text field you might encounter,
it has still the same principle, meaning that there is a field where text is
either present, or it can be entered.
Same goes for radio buttons or "normal" buttons. I know several programs
where the class name of a control element is not "button", but for an
example "xbutton" (this is a made up name).
But I would have to tell JAWS that "xbutton" is of the type "button".
But shouldn't a screen reader be able to determine this on its own?
As I said it must still have something that makes it a button, if only its
name is different...
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