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From: Kevin Chao
Date: Nov 2, 2016 9:49PM

Edge is supported by NVDA and JAWS 18 will be supported in December

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:38 PM Sean Murphy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> That is interesting in relation to EDGE. I will have to check out the
> status of Edge support with Jaws. I believe NVDA provides some support now.
>
> Sean
> > On 3 Nov. 2016, at 8:13 am, Mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > One thing to be aware of for the future is, even JAWS might not be able
> > to
> > do some of this later on. I know both JAWS and NVDA do some sniffing
> > around of the DOM and heuristics to make guesses of things, but for
> > example this isn't allowed any more on Edge (for security reasons
> > they've said) and I would expect most of the other browser vendors
> > to do the same, for the same reasons. I'm not sure what SRs and other
> > AT will do about that, since the reason they do it is poor authoring.
> >
> > _mallory
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016, at 03:45 AM, Beranek, Nicholas wrote:
> >> We test primarily with the latest versions of NVDA and Firefox. We've
> >> found that JAWS will compensate for bad coding practices (e.g. A missing
> >> programmatic label but adjacent text was present) and there were
> >> possibilities that it missed certain issues. If there is ever any
> >> question about the results from NVDA; then we'll try another browser. If
> >> it persists, we try another screen reader such as JAWS. Sometimes, we'll
> >> find that it's simply a user agent issue and we'll do our best to file a
> >> bug.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > >