[jawsscripts] Re: UIA - WPF and textblocks
- From: "Manish Agrawal" <manish10@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:28:06 +0530
Jaws 12 - the latest stable patch.
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: UIA - WPF and textblocks
Hi,
Which JAWS version have you tried?
Jim
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manish Agrawal
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:14 PM
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Subject: [jawsscripts] UIA - WPF and textblocks
Hi,
At work, I am working on creating a WPF application , which is almost
completely inaccessible (as expected) out of the box.
There are several textBlocks on the screen that present useful information
to the user but are not a part of the tab order and never get focus.
Jaws does a fairly good job with these in Silverlight where it loads
everything in a virtual buffer. However, with a WPF app, jaws doesn't pick
up anything at all.
Also, UIA exposes a whole lot of information with grids but none of the
screen readers seem to give me even very basic support for content in
tables, let alone full table support.
Combo boxes are announced as "combo boxes" and that is the end of it. I
cannot figure out any way of reading the contents and current selection
inside a combo box.
With NVDA, I am able to get to most of the textblocks and grid cells using
object navigation. Object navigation is however, hardly a good way of
accessing an application as a user and gives very little sense of the layout
of the content on the screen.
I also tried the demo version of the new window eyes 7.5 (it has UIA support
now) and got results comparable to NVDA but because of lack of WE's
capability or my lack of practice with that product (not to mention the very
irritating 30 minute limit before re-boot), I couldn't make much progress.
Has anyone done any work on these problems and made any more progress -
specially with jaws or any other screen reader?
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