RE: Quick Note on ARIA and Windows High Contrast Mode | scottohara.me

Thanks Jim!  Melanie Richards is our accessibility lead for Edge so I’m adding her.

  @Melanie Richards<mailto:Melanie.Richards@microsoft.com>  please see below.  Are you able to join next week to talk through this from an Edge POV?

~Jason
From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2019 10:54 AM
To: Jason Grieves <Jason.Grieves@microsoft.com>; Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>; public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Cc: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
Subject: Fwd: Quick Note on ARIA and Windows High Contrast Mode | scottohara.me

Hi Jason,
I know you are on vacation. Enjoy.
Jon Avila sent a post to the group concerning issues related to HCM and ARIA https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/02/12/high-contrast-aria-and-images.html<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottohara.me%2Fblog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fhigh-contrast-aria-and-images.html&data=02%7C01%7CJason.Grieves%40microsoft.com%7C3da7882453914265a09c08d7168fea02%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637002679875609591&sdata=7HPy5MGZejfpFbr7Y8sfsH2ZD%2FPj97OsWjvgKCtLEc4%3D&reserved=0>
Passing this along. I will put it on the agenda in the next week or so.

Jim

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Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:17 AM
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We should make sure to convey to Microsoft that ARIA roles and states or their representation in the   accessibility object model are taken into consideration for HCM mode in the new Edge.

https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2019/02/12/high-contrast-aria-and-images.html<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottohara.me%2Fblog%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fhigh-contrast-aria-and-images.html&data=02%7C01%7CJason.Grieves%40microsoft.com%7C3da7882453914265a09c08d7168fea02%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637002679875619586&sdata=4Cw4zn7LxqTWtRN9mIilZzYqD%2FPg3H4QQrRjoFhh7IM%3D&reserved=0>

Jonathan

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