Sara Ford's Weblog

A customer asked me a question the other day about how to increase the font size of the actual radio button itself. I asked Saurabh to answer the question, and he posted his response on his blog. Saurabh calls out how this leads to an inconsistency between...

Given the successful response rate of the first poll, I’m going to ask a similar and last question.  I use VS on my primary mointor.  On the secondary monitor, I use IE, test case writing and database tools, and the following VS tool windows...

Wow! Thanks for all the responses. If you haven't responded yet, please leave comments at Should VS support dragging code files onto a secondary montior? , even if you agree with everything that has already been said. Also, feel free to say, “hey...

Update on the Tennessee ADA case ... Except below taken from an Associated Press article. Note the 5-4 ruling. Washington (AP) - Disabled people can sue if states ignore a landmark civil rights law that protects their rights, a divided Supreme Court...

I found these videos a couple nights ago. These vidoes are pretty cool, especially considering i haven't seen many of the higher-ranking black belt katas before. Thanks to the Karate Union of Australia for publishing these videos on their website!...

If Gretchen can have her Will Weaton , I can have my MacGyver . As a young and impressionable kid (I was still in the single digits), I watched this guy escape a swinging pendulum trap by using his shoe.  It wasn’t until many, many years later I...

I want to get a sense of how many people use Visual Studio with a mulit-monitor display.  I’ve seen some feedback in my blog comments requesting that we add a feature to drag a code file onto the secondary monitor.  Currently, in order to have...

When i first started blogging, I created a goal to be ranked first on google when you type in “Testing for Accessibility” (no quotes), my article comes up first. As of posting this entry, it comes in at second place. So close, but with another...

Chad is collecting pictures of our customers to post in our hallways. We have lots of posters of applications built with Visual Studio, but very few, if any, pictures of the people behind these apps. If you're interested or interested in seeing who else...

As I demo’ed at CSUN , here are the Accessibility Macros for Visual Studio .NET 2003 . These macros allow users to tweak the Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE by easily increasing and decreasing font size, toggling colors in the editor to pure black on white...

As I've mentioned before, I own feature area testing outside of Accessibility Testing. One of the feature areas i own is Window Management. Here is a listing of some of the new Window Management features you'll see in the Technology Preview release. ...

Have you ever used AccExplorer or Inspect and wondered whether the information presented was correct? Have you ever wanted to know which controls really need Names, Keyboard Shortcuts, Descriptions, and so forth ? It's time to MsaaVerify! MsaaVerify will...

Let me remind you to view my disclaimer if you haven’t already. These are my thoughts as I sit here on a Tuesday evening watching T.V., and I reserve the right to change my mind on how I view things at any time. Most likely, my thoughts will have...