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Accessibility narrator reading the model class name instead of grid content of WPF application
In my WPF application, there is a grid view with three columns as Name, City, and Country. Please see the model class:
public class Employee
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string ...
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How can I change default description of wpf components with AutomationProperties?
I am developing an accessible WPF (C#) application in Visual Studio in Spanish. I am using JAWS screen reader. I have labeled in Spanish the MenuItems using AutomationProperties.Name in order for the ...
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Accessibility Issue
I have a word document that is accessibility complaint , and converting it into a pdf pro programmatically using third party tool Xceed (xceed.com), but after converting a document into pdf, i used to ...
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ASP.NET MVC - How to detect if user is using a screen reader
So I'm currently trying to check if a user is using a screen reader on our site. The reason I would like to check if they are is because our site provides a training module in which if they are using ...
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ComboBox not accessible with JAWS
When focussing on a ComboBox, JAWS says that you can alter the selection by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. But when altering, the user gets no audio feedback of the selected item.
Narrator ...
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How do I make screen readers read my WPF message similarly to how they read Win32 MessageBox?
We have a WPF desktop application which needs to show some custom message windows. I am having trouble getting them to be read aloud properly by screen readers such as JAWS from Freedom Scientific.
I ...
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UWP: Screenreader (JAWS) does not work in a webview
I load a local webpage in my webview, simply like this:
string url = "ms-appdata:///local/Templates/template.html";
_webView.Navigate(new Uri(url));
The webview needs to be compatible with JAWS (a ...
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JAWS not reading listview column headers
I've created a C# Windows Forms application in .NET. It has a main form. Main form has a ListView control with four columns as below:
First Name
Last Name
Age
Gender
I populate the list view with 1 ...
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JAWS accessiblity software with .Net
I have a XAML form on a desktop application running .net 4.5 that dynamically changes the forms displayed on the window based on the selected comboBox.
My issue is that JAWS accessiblity software is ...
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How do I set the aria-hidden attribute on a XAML form?
How do I set the aria-hidden attribute on a XAML form? More precisely, I need to set the aria-hidden attribute programmatically on the .xaml.cs file.
I need to set the aria-hidden to true because ...
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How to make JAWS (the screen reader) read 2 different controls one by one
I have a WPF dialog with 2 controls on it. Currently JAWS can only read one of them which got the focus on.
The target is to make JAWS read both of them.
- Is it possible to programmingly move the ...
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How to make JAWS read a simple label?
It should be simple, but apparently no one knows: If I add a Label control to my Windows Forms based dialog, and I want this label to be read by JAWS, how would I achieve that?
It works fine using ...
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C# : How to detect if screen reader is running?
How to detect if screen reader is running (JAWS)?
As I understand in .NET 4 we can use AutomationInteropProvider.ClientsAreListening from System.Windows.Automation.Provider namespace, but what if I ...
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Accessibility with screen readers (ex. Jaws)
A colleague of mine came to me with a problem on one of his projects. Unable to help him, due to my lack of experience with screen readers and the technology, I turn to you, the proud and mighty mass ...
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