‘VoiceOver’ Archive

Google Chrome Screen Reader Support update

June 21, 2010, filed under Assistive Technology, Google, Google Chrome, JAWS, NVDA, Screen Readers, VoiceOver, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, windows; 6 Comments.

Following last weeks post about Google Chrome accessibility which was prompted by The Google Chrome Screen Reader Accessibility Petition created by Alex Hiironen, new information about Google Chrome screen reader support has been added to the Google Chrome (Chromium) wiki: 

Supported Screen Readers
The latest versions of these screen readers have partial support for Chrome now:

System Access to Go (Windows)
VoiceOver (Mac OS X)

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Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)

September 28, 2009, filed under Accessibility, Apple, Assistive Technology, General, HTML 5, MSAA, Safari, VoiceOver, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, landmark roles, open source; 5 Comments.
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A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open source web browser engine), but the Windows version shows little progress.

Firefox and OS X’s VoiceOver … Reading the Magic 8 Ball - Aaron leventhal

August 26, 2008, filed under Accessibility, Screen Readers, VoiceOver, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, elsewhere; No Comments.

In Firefox and OS X’s VoiceOver … Reading the Magic 8 Ball Aaron Leventhal details the barriers faced in getting the Firefox browser to work with VoiceOver (Apples built in screen reader).