AccProbe 1.2 is now available, and under a BSD license. This is a tool to watch MSAA and IAccessible2 accessibility interfaces. http://a11y.org/accprobe
Archive for the ‘Accessibility’ Category
AccProbe 1.2 is now available
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010IAccessible2 released under BSD; AccProbe available via the Linux Foundation
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010The Linux Foundation Delivers New Licensing Terms, Testing Tools for Accessibility Interfaces
See http://bit.ly/boubLL
NetBeans 6.7.1 installer hangs at 0%
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009I didn’t find a solution to this via a Google search so for those of you that find this post via Google, here’s the history of the problem and a workaround.
Java Access Bridge
Thursday, August 6th, 2009My latest project is to investigate a rework of the Java Access Bridge to implement the MSAA/IAccessible2 interfaces.
Open Source Accessibility – A Gap Analysis
Monday, August 3rd, 2009On Aug 11 I’ll be attending an Open Source Accessibility meeting sponsored by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre.
One of the goals of the meeting is to do a gap analysis of existing technology to identify solutions that need to be addressed by the open source accessibility community.
IAccessible2
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009IAccessible2 – What’s next?
Over the last three years I lead a team developing the IAccessible2 interface, defining how screen readers and a11y enabled applications interact with each other.
IAccessible2 is often called IA2. IA2 extends MSAA allowing additional capability such as full access to information about a table or the offset of the caret in a text field. This work was done as an IBM employee under the direction of Rich Schwerdtfeger, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Software Group Accessibility Architect/Strategist. My IA2 work included:
- Chairing the regularly held meetings
- Responding to issues on the IA2 list
- Updating the spec’s commentary to remove ambiguities
- Providing implementation guidance to AT and application developers
- Acting as liaison between the AT and application developers
On January 21 I was part of a large resource action at IBM, suspending further IA2 development.
I believe the IA2 work is important. The advanced accessibility provided by IBM Lotus Symphony and Mozilla’s Firefox proves the benefits of IA2. I think the work should continue. But how?
I would like to continue the IA2 work – provided an organization commits to, and funds, the IA2 effort.
I’m asking for your feedback.
Thanks, Pete