IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

Ted — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:20:32 GMT

Better control over colors, flashing objects and low contract situations will greatly help us. Many sites use overly low contrast text to background colors which negatively affects persons with reduced color differentiation ability (e.g., yellowish text on a white background for those over 55 years of age).

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

Blake Coverett — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:55 GMT

The "working closely with assistive technology vendors" must only refer to some sort of private back-channel communication with existing large players. I've been trying to get an answer about IE9 UIAutomation support from the official forum and had no response from the various MSFT folk there at all.

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Is there some magic to get a ITextProvider with the current RC? The standard SDK Inspect tool can't see that interface.

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

JAB Creations — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:10:20 GMT

The biggest obstacle to accessibility when it's in the context of content loaded via AJAX is innerHTML; people need to learn to use importNode instead and there are hacks to get it to work in older versions of IE.

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

AMWJ — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:01:54 GMT

Aren't there CSS specifications for specifying how to make your page accessible to the deaf? Its seems it would be more inline with IE9's goal of "letting the site shine through" to leave the accessibility to the designer. (Expression Web already has these built in)

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

David Bailes — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:26:27 GMT

Could the interface to the list of subscribed feeds be improved for screenreaders? Currently, to find out if their are any feeds with new content, you have to down arrow through all the feeds to find the ones with new appended in parenthesis. If there are alot of feeds, this is extremely tedious. I have suggested previously, that one solution would be to have a keystroke to move to the next feed with new content, for example ctrl+u, in a similar manner to moving to the next unread email in an email client. For the most part, for users of screen readers, the feeds in IE are easy to use, but because of the above problem they aren't usable if you have a large number of feeds.

re: IE9’s Assistive Technology Interface Enhancements

Stilgar — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:16:42 GMT

I am so happy the screen reader technology will get better. My eyes are fine (for now) but I will need a screen reader to read the blurry text in IE9.