RE: [SEC508] Can AJAX find harmony on agency Web sites?

["Andrew Kirkpatrick" <akirkpat@adobe.com>]

Don,

> You are right on the money.  Stand L of 1194.22 is one of the 
> very few which require screen reader testing since the 
> functionality of text depends upon which event handlers the 
> screen reader deals with successfully.

I don't know about that, Don -- "can be read" by assistive technologies
is different from "is read".  Apple's OSX was a good example - before
VoiceOver they could claim that they complied with 508 because they
adhered to the Apple Accessibility API.  That's an extreme example, but
there are more subtle issues related to MSAA that application developers
deal with regularly.  Naturally the desire is to have it work with
screen readers, but that is about serving the users, not meeting 22l.

AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Corporate Accessibility Technical Lead
Adobe Systems
akirkpatrick@adobe.com