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Comparison / Context:

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