Archive for June, 2010

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)

These [...]

AViewer beta

June 17, 2010, filed under Firefox, HTML, HTML5, IAccessible2, Internet Explorer, MSAA, Screen Readers, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, accessibility testing, windows; 11 Comments.

Here at TPG we  have been working on a new tool to inspect  elements on a web page and be able to view the HTML code, ARIA attributes (if any) and the information being conveyed by the browser to  accessibility APIs, all in one neatish interface. We have given it the catchy moniker   “AViewer” and a [...]

When will Google Chrome be accessible?

June 14, 2010, filed under Accessibility, Assistive Technology, Google, Google Chrome, MSAA, Screen Readers; 9 Comments.

I have written on the issue of Google Chrome accessibility a number of times since its initial release. Progress is being made, but that progress is too slow for some users of Assistive Technology.  As a consequence a petition has been created by Alex Hiironen to highlight the issue that users of Assitive Technology such as screen [...]