[gui-talk] An I.E. 8 inquiry:

[James Pepper]

All versions of IE 8 will not work with JAWS 8. IE 8 only works partially
with JAWS 9.  Even with JAWS 10 you have problems.  If you are blind do not
upgrade to IE 8 until they work out the kinks in the program.  IE 8 is new,
you should not be the guinee pig for new technology.

Not that many webmasters know how to utilize the new accessibility features
in IE 8 and given the general lack of accessibility in websites to begin
with, why should you expect better?

But if you do want to keep IE 8 you could try using WebAnywhere which is an
ARIA based screen reader.  Other than that you are out of luck.

James

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:51 PM, albert griffith <
albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> When you say uninstall IE 8 do you mean Yahoo's version or any version?
> thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of James Pepper
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] An I.E. 8 inquiry:
>
> IE 8 uses the new system called ARIA which is a method of describing form
> fields under a new standard for accessibility. It makes it possible for
> people to claim they are making their content accessible using AJAX but
> they
> don't have to think about the practical aspects of accessible design.   The
> problem is nobody really knows how to design for this yet and so even
> though
> JAWS 10 is designed to work in this new format, they have not worked out
> all
> the bugs.  IE 8 does not work with JAWS 8 and has serious limitations with
> JAWS 9.
>
> The unfortunate thing is that Yahoo has completely disregarded the blind
> and
> forced IE 8 upon all of its customers.  You have to uninstall IE 8 to get
> your screen readers to work properly, that is the only solution.
>
> The big problem here is that designers cannot design webpages for
> accessibility under the old standards, they are hardly going to be able to
> do it for the new standards.
>
> James Pepper
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