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Accessibility in Silverlight 2

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 6th @ 9:04 AM
From NBC to AOL, Nokia to Move Networks, the broad range of spotlight Silverlight applications attest to how much maturity the platform has gained since being launched last year.

Accessibility has been something of a weak spot in Silverlight 1.0; with only very basic support for alt tags and default actions.  It hasn't been all bad, since this led developers to use Silverlight with "Plain Old Semantic HTML" in a progressive enhancement pattern -- which will continue to be useful in some scenarios going forward.  But the range of options for accessible development increases substantially with Silverlight 2.

In this interview and demonstration, Mark Rideout explains the new accessibility enhancements in Silverlight 2; from support for controls and tabbing to support for (UI Automation) UIA.
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Re: Accessibility in Silverlight 2

Posted By: telmocarlos | Apr 9th @ 7:41 AM

Great insight.

I am really excited about Silverlight. Here’s a link on a discussion about Silverlight and Accessibility:

http://www.nixonmcinnes.co.uk/2008/03/18/microsoft-silverlight-%e2%80%93-light-up-the-web-really/
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Public Sector Developer Weblog : Silverlight 2, Accessibility, Section 508, etc.

Posted By: system | Apr 1st @ 10:55 AM
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Gold Coast : Silverlight 2, Accessibility, Section 508, etc.

Posted By: system | Apr 1st @ 10:49 AM
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Robert Folkesson : Tillgänglighetsanpassning i Silverlight 2

Posted By: system | Mar 27th @ 5:38 PM
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Silverlight 2 Resource

Posted By: system | Mar 26th @ 11:52 AM
It has been three weeks since we annouced Silverlight 2 at MIX08. Many of you are excited to getting
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長沢智治のライフサイクルブログ : 【UIA】UI Automation を用いたユーザーインターフェイスのテスト - 序

Posted By: system | Mar 18th @ 8:54 AM
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POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog : Accessibility and UI Automation in Silverlight 2

Posted By: system | Mar 16th @ 12:17 AM
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Microsoft Accessibility : UI Automation Support for Silverlight 2.0 Announced at MIX

Posted By: system | Mar 6th @ 7:11 PM
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Accessibility in Silverlight 2

Posted By: system | Mar 6th @ 4:55 PM
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