[oats-sig] Fwd: Doug Geoffray tutorial at Yahoo

These 2 videos not only provide a technical explanation of how Windows

Interesting stuff - a good summary of development over the years.
Also interesting that Doug is predicting that in the long run 
UIAutomation will be a better option than IA2 - but we are not there yet!

stephen

At 14:13 07/04/2007, you wrote:
>These 2 videos not only provide a technical explanation of how Windows
>screen readers work but are something of a plea for application
>developers to follow the accessibility standards and good design so
>that AT vendors can support them. For example see the unbelievable
>lengths they went through for Outlook at the end of video 1.
>
>Doug also explains why UIAutomation is not currently being used by AT
>vendors (required managed or .NET code) and how IA2 is filling the
>void.
>
>OK so GWMicro do not
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Pete Brunet <brunet at us.ibm.com>
>Date: Apr 6, 2007 10:41 PM
>Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] Doug Geoffray tutorial at Yahoo - mentions IA2
>To: Accessibility-ia2 at lists.freestandards.org
>
>
>
>This video is pretty a pretty good tutorial about screen readers by
>Doug Geoffray, VP of Development, at GW Micro.  It was taped recently
>at Yahoo.
>
>http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_frr9nhZG5OQARx8EP88F;_ylu=X3oDMTBlcmRnZDFhBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNjcmVz/SIG=130t0aifs/EXP=1175974013/**http%3a//video.yahoo.com/video/play%3fei=UTF-8%26b=1%26vid=357221%26gid=133414
>
>IA2 is mentioned from 14:30 through 16:30.
>
>BTW, That's Victor Tsaran from Yahoo in the front of the room.
>
>Part 2 is pretty good too:
>http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_frr9nhZG5OQARB8EP88F;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTZnaHQxBHBvcwMwBHNlYwNjcmVz/SIG=130bk4jbp/EXP=1175974013/**http%3a//video.yahoo.com/video/play%3fei=UTF-8%26b=0%26vid=357225%26gid=133414
>
>Pete Brunet
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