Hi,
H-J utilizes MSAA as a tool in JFW, but I believe that they do not
implement it fully. In other screen readers, for example, it is possible
to arrow through a web page as though it were a document, using the
regular system's cursor. This is a result of the use of MSAA. JFW uses
MSAA for the command bars and other functions of Office 97, and for the
reformatting, list of links and frame list in IE 4. It is probably used
in other places, but I can't be sure. I wonder if the added functionality
could be put into the scripts for IE. There are script functions for
handling objects for MSAA. I am not, alas, a programmer.
Regards.
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Tusing wrote:
> Thank you for that post,
> In an e-mail from the company, I "believe" that I was told in early
> march that the msaa functionality equivalent to WindowEyes would be in 3.3.
> Now I have asked people who have 3.3--and perhaps I did not ask the
> question well enough--but I hear what you, sir, referred to.
> Since we all appreciate this software and its versatility, then would
> not HJ have a great opportunity to write scripts to give us the
> functionality that others besides yourself have already referred to? The R
> D efforts regarding JAWS have created excellent software.
> It is not too late to keep that fine record going and make a good thing
> better via patches or whatever?
> Also when people refer to JAWS versions --so a sizable minority are for
> the present with 3.2--could people please say "JAWS 3.3 or JAWS 3.2" so we
> know to what the comments refer to?
> And JAWs is fine software--that is not the issue here-- every good thing
> can bre improved.sticking&
>
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