Ok, I got that...
But I think that since Windows was created, there were always developers of
software who did not necessarily use standard controls or API
communications.
If this problem is technically that old, why does look it like (from the
point of view from the end user of a screen reader) that the screen reader
developers seem to be incapable of adding support for more non standard
controls?
I mean, I don't know how designing controls work.
But non standard controls go back to the Windows 95 era.
Seriously, Java, Shockwave formerly Macromedia Director or Flash are known
technologies, right?
If anyone (professional) developers can get access to parts of that
technology, then there surely should be a way of adapting the screen reader
to handle non standard controls, right?
I mean we or our screen reader developers can't force everyone to solely use
standard controls, even if Microsoft might like that or not.
JAWS for example is one of the oldest commercial screen readers which still
exists today.
And there are lots of blind users who have to deal with non standard
controls at work or at home.
This problem is known.
Obviously it would take a long time to make every control element
accessible, that is surely true.
But as I said, everyone knows for example what Flash or Silverlight or Java
and a few other partially accessible are and that there might be a certain
demand in making such things accessible.
And about the Video Intercept drivers, how limited is its effectiveness if
it (in theory) can get more data than the Windows API might give the screen
reader for a certain application?
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