Hans Hillen from TPG is presenting a Flex Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe. It will be on Wednesday, July 21st 12:00 noon, US EST, and it’s free to attend.
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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 screen readers do not yet recognize Chrome’s non-focusable web content (links, form fields and other focusable content is spoken as expected), so you will be unable to enter “browse mode”:
- JAWS (Windows)
- Window-Eyes (Windows)
- NVDA (Windows)
We hope to work with all screen reader developers to resolve any issues so that they can enable full support for Chrome.The list above is not a comprehensive list of all screen readers, but in the interest of prioritizing support for the greatest number of users, we believe that supporting the screen readers above will have the greatest impact. If external developers are interested in helping to add support for additional screen readers, we would welcome the help.For more detailed information about the technical design and current status, see the Accessibility Design Document.
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 beta version is available for download. Read the rest of this entry »
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 readers are still unable to enjoy the advances in browser speed and functionality provided by Google Chrome.
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HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives is a work in progress currently edited by me, I encourage anyone with an interest to contribute to its development.