This post on another list gives details. From: Scott Erichsen [email protected] To: [email protected]
I'm sharing the following from Freedom Scientific to help clear up confusion as to why iTunes 12.1 is inaccessible to JAWS and other screen readers under 64bit windows. With iTunes 12.1 and 64-bit iTunes Apple inadvertently introduced an accessibility problem with accessing the album list and perhaps other lists in the iTunes UI. (The problem does not exist in the 32-bit version of iTunes.) It impacts JAWS, Narrator, and Window Eyes. All three of these products use 64-bit components to obtain MSAA event information inside of the iTunes process generating the events. This generally offers better performance than receiving events out-of-process. NVDA uses the out-of-process technique and is primarily a 32-bit app, even on 64-bit windows. The nature of the iTunes bug is such that it does not impact 32-bit processes receiving events out-of-process. Just to let everyone know. We have had some success getting in touch with an engineer on the iTunes for Windows team at Apple. We have given them the information they need to get this resolved and will have to give them a chance to resolve it now. Hope this helps. Scott _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
