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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Jun 2, 2009 4:50AM

Hello,

Léonie Watson provides useful information about how Jaws 10.x, NVDA 0.6,
SA To Go, and the Window Eyes 7.1 screen readers support the ARIA AJAX
Live Regions with IE8 and FF3. These live regions provide screen reader
accessibility to rich internet applications that update portions of
screens. These live regions come from the ARIA roadmap. Read the piece
here http://tink.co.uk/2009/06/screen-reader-support-for-ajax-live-regions

Jennison

Jennison Mark Asuncion
Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network www.adaptech.org
LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jennison