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Re: Running ChromeVox as a library in a web page?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Aug 31, 2017 9:32AM

Sorry, I misread that. Thought you were referring to IndieUI not UIA.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I've *really* gotta make the time to explore UIA. I've heard you mention
> it before and it seemed intriguing, but I just haven't gotten around to it
> yet.
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > wrote:
>
>> > absent something like this, how you keep moving forward in terms of UI
>> patterns.
>>
>> Ultimately we need a way to communicate the patterns a control supports,
>> the actions associated with a control, and a method to activate those
>> actions. Instead of solely relying on all sorts of keystrokes if there was
>> a programmatic way to communicate this and perform the actions like those
>> provided through the actions rotor on VoiceOver it would provide
>> consistency and flexibility. Accessibility APIs like UIA support the
>> above at some depth but the ARIA semantics still need to catch up as they
>> are focused on roles and not patterns and there are not great ways of
>> communicated in the DOM the different actions and perform those. Web
>> accessibility will in time be moving into where we can access the
>> accessibility API through JavaScript and these areas will be better
>> supported. The challenge has been up to this point to get the assistive
>> technology and user agents updated to support the current ARIA consistently
>> -- which has taken years to get where we are today.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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