Third Of Five - just another voice in the Collective

After I spent the last couple of weeks talking about the specifics of the accessibility work done in Access, I thought I had to relate my impressions on how the process went. It was particularly interesting to see how most people have no idea what MSAA Read More...

For Access 2007, we are adding a lot of new UI (e.g. a DBC replacement, new wizards), rewriting the UI from scratch while keeping some infrastructure (e.g. SUI, Field List) or revamping it to a lesser extent (e.g. Query Designer, Relationship Window). Read More...

Perhaps the major Accessibility investment we made in Access 2007 has been implementing a highly flexible MSAA tree for grids. Most people don't realize how far and wide Access uses grids in the product. A quick way to figure that out is look out for Read More...

As I mentioned last week, forms in Access 2007 will see some accessibility improvements. At first glance, the MSAA for forms might appear to be the same as it ever was, but we've actually made a lot of improvements here. Besides making sure all new controls Read More...

As Erik hinted , in Access 2007 we will allows a new mode for Reports called "Report Browse". By "mode" imagine something like forms which have a Browse vs. Print Preview mode. This mode allows cut & paste, sorting & filtering and much more. Of Read More...

Perhaps one of the less sung additions to Access 2007 is the all-around improvement on Accessibility we've been able to deliver. The improvements range from "small" things (such as supporting returning the OM interface of Access from the main window when Read More...