Jaws 11 Control Description in Verbosity Preferences - Effect on ARIA? from Schnabel, Stefan on 2009-10-26 (wai-xtech@w3.org from October 2009)

From: Schnabel, Stefan <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:20:47 +0100
To: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Message-ID: <8EA44C66E2911C4AB21558F4720695DC5D82AFBAF2@DEWDFECCR01.wdf.sap.corp>

Hi,

does anybody know if the new Jaws 11 Control Description feature in Verbosity Preferences will have any effect on the readout of aria-describedBy or any other role-related ARIA attribute in IE8?

I've read in a thread http://www.freelists.org/post/program-l/UIA-in-jaws-11-public-beta,22 that it will affect MSAA readout of GetObjectDescription http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a2109sx2%28VS.80%29.aspx ("This function returns the AccDescription property of the container of an MSAA Object ..etc. ").

Or does that apply/have effect with Jaws 11 only for "pure" ATL windows programming that references/uses MSAA?

- Stefan

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