New Grant from the Mozilla Foundation furthers NVDA

We would like to thank the Mozilla Foundation for providing  NV Access with another grant allowing NVDA to continue and grow. Initially this grant will allow development of much more proper and complete support for ARIA live regions in NVDA. Specifically this work will firstly consist of redesigning NVDA's in-process code, making it less specific to virtual buffers and more generalized so that it will be much easier to add code for such things as live regions. I have started this work already. Secondly support for live regions will be designed within the new in-process framework so that NVDA will be able to appropriately announce changes in live regions found in web documents and applications. Examples of live regions are the message history of a chat application, a value on a score board, or even perhaps subtitles, audio description text, or captions on a video streamed over the web.

Comments

1. Iris -- 2009-08-04 07:37

Hi, just stopped by the site and saw the blog! Congrats on the new funding, and thank you for making a difference in our little world. Keep it up! Iris