Skip to main content

Articles and Featured Content Accessibility Featured Content RSS

Accessibility Overview

Programming for Ease of Access
The Ease of Access Center brings together functionality for accessibility and ease of use and enables users to configure their computers to suit their physical and cognitive needs.
Making Custom Controls Accessible
Learn how to make a custom control accessible. Techniques range from creating or overriding properties with Dynamic Annotation, to using the new IAccessibleEx interface to add UI Automation support to controls that already support Microsoft Active Accessibility.
Text-to-Speech: Accessibility Feature for Silverlight 3.0 Applications
Learn how to create accessible Silverlight 3.0 applications using text-to-speech functionality.
Engineering Software for Accessibility: Resources by Chapter
Links to additional resources that support Engineering Software for Accessibility
Left-Handed Mouse Pointers
These left-handed Windows Vista mouse pointers are designed for left-handed users. They point to the right, instead of the left, which may feel more natural for left-handed users. The pointers are available in three sizes--standard, large, and extra-large.
Bull's Eye Mouse Pointer
This circular mouse pointer changes into a red bull's eye when you hover over clickable controls on a Web page.
Windows Automation API Overview
This overview highlights the similarities and differences between Microsoft Active Accessibility and UI Automation, describes the components and features that enable the two technologies to work together, and provides guidelines for choosing which technology to implement.

Projects from CodePlex

Accessibility Overview

UI Accessibility Checker
UI Accessibility Checker (or AccChecker) enables testers without prior experience to easily discover accessibility problems with Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and other user interface(UI) implementations for Windows.
MsaaVerify
MsaaVerify is a testing tool that verifies whether properties and methods off of the IAccessible interface (aka Microsoft Active Accessibility) meet the guidelines specified in the MSAA documentation on MSDN.
UI Accessibility Checker
UI Accessibility Checker (or AccChecker) enables testers without prior experience to easily discover accessibility problems with Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and other user interface(UI) implementations for Windows.
MsaaVerify
MsaaVerify is a testing tool that verifies whether properties and methods off of the IAccessible interface (aka Microsoft Active Accessibility) meet the guidelines specified in the MSAA documentation on MSDN.
UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify) Test Automation Framework
UIA Verify is a test automation framework that facilitates manual and automated testing of the Microsoft User Interface (UI) Automation Provider implementation of a control or application.

Videos Accessibility Videos RSS

Accessibility Overview

Reaching out via Twitter and Facebook
Windows Developer Content and Community team is sharing news and guidance for Windows developers via Twitter and Facebook.
Imagine Cup 2008: Interview with Surya Vanka
Microsoft's Annuska Perkins and Surya Vanka chat about the Imagine Cup's new accessibility category in the Interface Design competition and its impact on the industry's future developers.
Imagine Cup 2008: Interview with Tracy Gray
Microsoft's Annuska Perkins and NCTI Director Tracy Gray talk about the new accessibility category in the Interface Design competition and chat about the National Center for Technology and Innovation's focus for the future.
ICCHP 2008: Interview with Jim Fruchterman
Microsoft's Annuska Perkins interviews Jim Fruchterman about Benetech's Bookshare.org project.
Using UI Automation to Build a Screen Reader, Part 5
Part 5 of a five-part podcast series.
Using UI Automation to Build a Screen Reader, Part 4
Part 4 of a five-part podcast series.
Using UI Automation to Build a Screen Reader, Part 3
Part 3 of a five-part podcast series.
Using UI Automation to Build a Screen Reader, Part 2
Part 2 of a five-part podcast series.

Windows UI Automation Blog

The official blog of the Microsoft Windows UI Automation & Accessibility Team.

Accessibility Overview

Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 4: Postscript
Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 4: PostscriptGuy Barker Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and Wi... more
Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 3: The WinJS app
Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 3: The WinJS appGuy Barker Say I’m fairly familiar with HTML, css... more
Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 2: The XAML app
Customizing the accessibility of my XAML and WinJS Windows 8 apps – Part 2: The XAML appGuy Barker So I’ve built my cool new Windows 8 in ... more

Microsoft Accessibility Labs Blog

Microsoft Accessibility Labs shares the latest developments in accessibility.

Accessibility Overview

Keeping Up-to-Date with Partners in Learning
We live in world where it seems to be increasingly hard to keep up with the pace of new technology. As a parent of school age children and as the son ... more
Autism Hackathon in Seattle - March 22-24th
The Bing Fund would like to invite you to join us at the Hack Autism Event, a hackathon brought to you by Bing Fund in partnership with UW Autism Cent... more
Microsoft Accessibility Support Team - Frequently Asked Questions
In a previous post we announced the availability of the Microsoft Accessibility Support Team and the new customer support offering that provides a tai... more
Rate: