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AT historically reverse-engineered
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fragile, costly, special casing required
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required years of engineering
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MS Windows is accessible largely because of third-party
efforts
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For most users, Accessibility == Windows
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MSAA is an API approach, but much less complete
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not used widely by MS-Office
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Mozilla accessibility: Windows-only approach, until recently
GNU/Linux accessibility limited to console
applications
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products like speakup (talking kernel), emacspeak
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addresses blindness only, except for AccessX
Free-software solutions leave users in charge of their
own destinies
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