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Re: tools for testing Windows-based accessibility?

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From: Travis Roth
Date: Jan 16, 2007 5:30PM

Hi,
Jennison Asuncion asked:
"Are there any tools out there that would assist developers of Windows-based
applications (i.e., using .NET) in terms of verifying their accessibility?"

Yes, there are tools to assist. As with the web tools, and in large part
even more so, there is not an automated, or cure all solution.
There are tools to assist in determing if a Windows program is making
information available through accessibility API's.

For Windows programs, such as those developed in .Net, Microsoft Active
Accessibility is the accessibility API. Tools that can show what information
is being made available through MSAA can be found in the MSAA toolkit 1],
and include Inspector, AccExplorer and AccEvent.

If the program is Java-based, then the Java Accessibility API is what is
used, this is separate from MSAA. Sun Microsystems includes tools to observe
what infomration is being made availabel through the Java Accessibility API
as part of the Java access Bridge 2] package. They are called Java Ferret
and JavaMonkey.

[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3755582A-A707-460A-
BF21-1373316E13F0&displaylang=en
[2] http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/


Travis Roth
Production Manager
TecAccess, LLC
(804) 749-8646 (office)
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Experts in Section 508 Compliance & Accessibility

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