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Re: aria and Jaws

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: Apr 9, 2008 4:40AM

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

I have tested a few roles and states and seems to work OK, on par with
Firefox 3 for what i tested.

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=53

On 09/04/2008, Jon Gibbins (dotjay) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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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