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Re: Adobe Edge Accessibility?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Nov 5, 2015 2:10AM

Of course if I'd replied to this after my first cup of tea this morning, I'd have realised you were talking about Adobe Edge, not Microsoft Edge...

Léonie.


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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Adobe Edge Accessibility?
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> > From: WebAIM-Forum On Behalf Of Jordan Wilson
> > Sent: 05 November 2015 04:16
> > We've been tasked with creating an HTML5 animation and one of our
> > animators attempted to build it using Adobe Edge. It looks good, but
> > unfortunately we're finding that the output of Edge is a horribly
> > inaccessible mess of dynamically rendered DIVs. Keyboard control seems
> impossible.
> >
> > I've scoured the web for help and found nothing. There are folks who
> > seem to think the code is automatically accessible because its native
> > HTML, but no who actually tested the results with AT.
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> The chances are that the problem is with Edge, rather than with your code.
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> Edge does not support MSAA, the Windows accessibility API that most ATs
> relied on in Internet Explorer. It supports UIAutomation (UIA), but as I
> understand it most ATs do not yet play well with this accessibility API.
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> In addition, Edge does not permit third party access to the DOM. Traditionally
> ATs have circumvented the accessibility APIs by directly accessing the DOM
> when necessary. In Edge this is no longer possible.
>
> Microsoft has committed to improving UIA. You can track features that have
> been implemented and those on the roadmap using MS' platform status
> feature [1].
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> To date Narrator probably has the most capability in Edge. NVDA has also
> introduced support for Edge, but it is constrained by the limitations of UIA.
> Jaws and Window Eyes do not support Edge at all, and to the best of my
> knowledge none of the magnifier and/or speech/magnifier combo ATs
> support it either. I suspect the same is true for speech recognition tools, but
> can't say for certain.
>
> Léonie.
> [1] https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/
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