For those who missed it and for the record, all I did was post a message
saying that Edge would be accessible eventually. I prefaced that message
with "This is only my personal opinion. So take it for what it's worth."
Stephen Clark, who I don't know from Adam, replied and told me that I
was an old man, I had no idea what I was talking about, I was out of
touch with reality, and I just sat around living off government checks
while he worked.
He said over and over again that he was absolutely sure Edge would never
be accessible and that Internet Explorer was going away.
Yes, I fired back at him but I did not stoop to his level of personal
insults. I then posted the statement from Microsoft saying that Internet
Explorer would be supported for the life of Windows 10 along with the
link to the page for those who didn't believe me.
Someone else then made the mistake of agreeing that Edge would
eventually be accessible. Below is Stephen's reply with my reply to it.
I'm posting this for those who believed his repetitive assertions that
Edge would never be accessible.
On 5/22/2016 9:05 PM, Stephen Clark via Talk wrote:
> Prove it.
From
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/12/accessible-ux-with-html5-and-uia/
Building a more accessible user experience with HTML5 and UIA
By Microsoft Edge Team
Recently, we introduced Microsoft Edge’s new accessibility architecture,
which inherently supports modern web standards, and provides a
foundation to make the web platform more accessible than ever. To build
a comprehensive ecosystem across all products and users of every
ability, assistive technologies build end user experiences on top of
accessibility frameworks. In Edge, accessibility information is exposed
through the UI Automation (UIA) framework. HTML, CSS, and ARIA markup is
translated to UIA objects that assistive technologies use to provide a
tailored experience.
In this post, we’ll walk through some concrete examples of how our new
architecture improves the end user’s experience, and specifically how
markup defines the experience of navigating with assistive technologies
like screen readers. Our examples focus on Narrator, but any screen
reader using UIA will be able to take advantage of these improvements.
Measuring success with HTML5Accessibility
As part of our ongoing work to advance Edge’s accessibility, we want to
make sure developers and users can easily get accurate information on
platform accessibility across browsers, making it easier to build more
accessible sites and make informed decisions when using accessibility
features. For example, we are working closely with HTML5Accessibility’s
maintainer, Steve Faulkner of the Paciello Group, to update the site and
refresh its design.
HTML5Accessibility is a popular resource for this information that
summarizes and rates major browsers’ HTML5 platform accessibility. Some
of the success criteria include mappings to the accessibility API,
keyboard accessibility, and the accessibility of error states. The
upcoming refresh (which you can preview today on GitHub) includes
changes to clarify pass criteria, add additional tests, and even give
the site a fresh and modern makeover.
Comparing the old and new HTML5Accessibility.com designs. Note that the
updated site does not yet reflect the accessibility improvements in
EdgeHTML 14.
Many of the accessibility APIs discussed in this post are tracked on
HTML5Accessibility, or were leveraged to build the site’s upcoming
redesign. Each element or attribute has its own test page, so you can
use Narrator to try out the user experience and open Inspect or F12 to
see how they are mapped to UIA.
Note that HTML5Accessibility currently tracks the status of shipping
versions of the listed browsers, and has not yet been updated with the
new test criteria. With the work landing in EdgeHTML 14, we look forward
to a much-improved score for Edge soon! We’ll share more when those
updates are available.
Read more at
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/12/accessible-ux-with-html5-and-uia/#rXPoCvxQdq5lUl3g.99
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