- From: Henny Swan <hennys@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:05:48 +0000
- To: Kelly Ford <kford@windows.microsoft.com>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ua@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Kelly, This is all really useful, thanks for looking into it. Henny On 26 Feb 2009, at 18:31, Kelly Ford wrote: > Henny, > > I asked the folks responsible for UI Automation about this. Here is > their reply. Individual vendors should be contacted for more > specifics on their support for UI Automation. If you want more > details on UI Automation let me know and I can get you in touch with > the right contacts. > > NV Access, Freedom Scientific, AI Squared, Dolphin, TextHelp all > will be supporting UI Automation in their next major release, or do > so today. TextHelp already supports UI Automation via the managed > APIs. The rest will be using the new unmanaged client APIs that are > being made available with the release of Windows 7. The unmanaged > APIs will most likely go downlevel, but we don't have a plan with > dates yet available for downlevel. For those organizations that want > to take advantage of the new features in the unmanaged APIs but use > managed code, they can use COM interop to get at the new > functionality. > > NV Access has a grant from Microsoft to implement UIA, and you can > find their blog at: http://www.nvaccess.org/blog/MicrosoftGrant2008-2009Announcement > > Novell is implementing UI Automation for Linux for the Suse, Ubuntu > and RedHat distros under the Mono environment. They are just > finishing up on their provider side implementation in March of this > year, and then will start to work on the client side > implementations. Their support includes accessibility for Winforms > and Moonlight (the Linux version of Silverlight). Details about > their project can be found at: http://www.mono-project.com/Accessibility > . The Novell implementation bridges to the Linux ATK. > > UI Automation was donated to with a Microsoft Community Promise the > details of the specification are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A1FE1066-BF4F-44FC-834B-676B311E83A2&displaylang=en&tm > . One of the documents that is part of the collection of > specifications, is the mapping of UIA to W3C ARIA specification. > > Kelly > > > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org] > On Behalf Of Henny Swan > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:27 AM > To: David Poehlman > Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org > Subject: Re: Support for UI Automation > > Thanks David. > > On 26 Feb 2009, at 11:09, David Poehlman wrote: > >> on windows, you are better off to stick with msaa and hacks but this >> has more to do with software than with the web. >> >> On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Henny Swan wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Another quick question for the list if I may. >> >> Does anyone know how well UI Automation is supported by screen >> readers such as Jaws, WindowEyes and others such as NVDA? As I >> understand it Iaccessible2 is sort of cross platform but not fully >> (this I am still a bit unclear on I admit) so I am curious to know >> if UIA would be a better route to go down with regards to a robust >> cross platform accessibility API. >> >> Thanks in advance, Henny >> >> -- >> Henny Swan >> Web Evangelist >> Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach >> Group >> www.opera.com/developer >> >> Personal blog: www.iheni.com >> >> Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonnie Appleseed >> with his >> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >> reducing technology's disabilities >> one byte at a time >> > > > > > -- > Henny Swan > Web Evangelist > Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach > Group > www.opera.com/developer > > Personal blog: www.iheni.com > > Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc > > > > > > > -- Henny Swan Web Evangelist Member of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Group www.opera.com/developer Personal blog: www.iheni.com Stay up to date with the Web Standards Curriculum www.opera.com/wsc
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