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[Snowman]

Updating to reaper 5.201, MSAA now has the value of the slider, even though 
jaws is, as you indicated, not picking up the value change.  But, I will fix 
that.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jamie at nvaccess.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 5:15 PM
Subject: [Rwp] (no subject)


> On 27/05/2016 5:44 AM, Snowman wrote:
>> Is this the alt+shift+m dialog you are talking about?
> Yes.
>
>> With jaws 15, jaws knows  it is a slider, and speaks the correct label, 
>> but does not speak values as you use the arrow keys.
> Does it speak the value when the slider first gets focus? If not, are you 
> running REAPER 5.20? Earlier versions do not expose the correct 
> accessibility information.
>
>> THE MSAA object for the slider contains no information in the Name, 
>> Value, or Description fields.
> It should if you're running 5.20. If not, it's possibly because REAPER 
> doesn't implement IDispatch for MSAA and JAWS scripting will only work 
> with IDispatch; it can't do IAccessible directly. Note that JAWS itself 
> can do direct IAccessible; it's just JAWS scripting that can't. In other 
> words, even if JAWS can read the name and value when it gets focus, JAWS 
> scripting may not be able to access it.
>
> The issue with the arrow keys not actually changing the value is the issue 
> most people (but not all) seem to be experiencing. The value is exposed 
> correctly; it's just not changing when the arrow keys are used.
>
> Jamie
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