April 2004 - Posts
So far, 5 out of the 8 video interviews have been posted on Channel 9 : Accessibility and Visual Studio Are there some misperceptions of working at Microsoft that you'd like to correct? What does it mean to test? How many bugs a day do you find? Who decides
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Today, i watched students in my dojo (training facility) test for different purple and brown belt Kyus (rank or level). My sensei (karate teacher or head teacher) said that i could retest for second brown or 2nd Kyu, since the kata (form or series of
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This was one of the first things i learned about accessibility when i first started at Microsoft. Aaron, my fellow blogger and partner in crime making Whidbey accessible, blogs more on Accessibility is not a feature .
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Raymond Chen has a post with sample code on How to Retrieve Text under the cursor (mouse pointer) using MSAA. The code sample include how to call AccessibleObjectFromPoint, IAccessible::get_accName, and IAccessible::get_accValue.
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Check out Saurabh's post on the “hide underline letters” checkbox issue. If you've ever wondered, “How do I figure out when to paint focus rectangle and when to draw string with mnemonics underlined?” Saurabh has the answer for
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The shotoblog has challenged me to start blogging about karate. At first I thought a weblog had to be about one topic. But, I’m starting to think that it’s not a faux-pas to blog about non-Whidbey topics. (did I just use a triple negative
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I'm not sure whether this counts for being scoblized or not. Robert Scoble mentions in this post about my upcoming interview with Channel 9, but he didn't link to my blog. It feels like I've almost been scoblized. <smiles> Two weeks ago, Robert
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Want to look up more blogs on Visual Studio? Check out my team's list of biographies at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/team/bios/ My bio is located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/team/bios/ and my career bio listed on the Mathematical Association
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You can find this control on the Display Properties – Appearance Tab – Effects dialog. It not only hides underlined letters, but also it can hide focus at certain times. If you’ve ever wondered why focus appears sometimes and it doesn’t
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Gretchen , a friend of mine from Microsoft Recruiting, has co-created a blog called Technical Careers at Microsoft . Definitely check it out if you're interested in what recruiting is like at Microsoft, helpful tips and tricks for interviewing and resumes,
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Christopher Keroack, the Test Manager for the Windows Accessibility team, asked me if I could post the following: What do you think about desktop customization? This can either be out of necessity (e.g. making fonts bigger, making UI easier to click with
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Let me answer this with a story… it began with a question in my inbox I hadn’t seen before, “Are standard windows scrollbars over-localized on non-ENU OS?” A tester on my team had installed an English version of the product on
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If you said, “A Control's Keyboard Shortcut”, that’s incorrect! I get asked this question from time to time, so I'm going to share the answer here. Let’s review a Keyboard Shortcut versus a Mnemonic. A mnemonic is a control’s
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My “Testing for Accessibility” article, also known internally as a “whitepaper”, is now found under UI Design and Development - Accessibility - Technical Articles at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnacc/html/accessibility_testing.asp
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