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Re: aria and Jaws

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From: Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Date: Apr 9, 2008 4:30AM

Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> The document at <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML>; states:
> "Screen reader support is only available in Firefox 1.5 or later.
> Here are the required components that must be installed:
> 1. Firefox: download and install Firefox.
> 2. Screen reader: for testing with a screen reader, Window-Eyes
> 5.5 or later is required. In addition, JAWS 7.x or later has partial
> support for ARIA. Also, Orca 2.20 or later has support for most ARIA
> widget types for Firefox 3.0."


It may also be worth mentioning that Microsoft has added some support
for ARIA in IE 8 beta:
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=42

However, I'm not sure how well that works with either JAWS or
Window-Eyes at the moment.

Jon


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