Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio Sara Ford, software design engineer and tester on the Visual Studio team, introduces herself to Channel9 (the rest of her interview will run over the next week here on Channel9). She has an important job at Microsoft: she makes sure that everyone is able to use Visual Studio (she's an accessibility expert). Imagine you were blind and wanted to program in Visual Studio. Thanks to Sara's, and other people's efforts here, you'd be able to. How can Microsoft make its products more accessible? Sara's listening for your ideas. One other way Sara is looking out for developers? She's also a tester on the Visual Studio 2005 team. She writes code to test Visual Studio. That means she finds bugs. Before they get into the product where they'll ruin your day. She'll talk more about what that means. Oh, and she has a blog where she writes even more about these topics. en Mon, 20 May 2013 07:10:30 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 07:10:30 GMT Rev9 Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio posted by Frankie Fresh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632186950500000000 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:37:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632186950500000000 Frankie Fresh Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio
The interviewer asks Sara what VS sounds like with a screen reader, and most of the rest interview ends up being Sara trying to remember what the screen reader would say--when a simple demo would've been more effective.

I understand there's probably issues of confidentiality, but surely something a little more complex than talking heads should be possible?

posted by mvuijlst

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187096520000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:40:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187096520000000 mvuijlst Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio posted by androidi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187102470000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:50:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187102470000000 androidi Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio posted by scobleizer

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187208100000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:46:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187208100000000 scobleizer Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio
I think Channel9 has a nice community cable vibe going for it:  it exposes people, even people inside the big house, to some pretty neat technology, people, and happenings.  Sara's video was fine for a brief intro to the topic.  Personally, I'd like to see it covered in more depth, but that's probably a task more suited to the MSDN TV guys (if they weren't so dang busy showing us Longhorn features Smiley.

More on topic, there are many people out there who would benefit from better accessibility support in the software they use.  And now, if you want to support Tablet PC users who use voice command to control apps, you have yet another reason to push programming for accessibility. Smiley  Just check out the Tablet PC platform sdk.

Curt

posted by amotif

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187675260000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:45:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187675260000000 amotif Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio In retrospect, maybe having placed a microphone next to one of the speakers (provided there wasn't any feedback) would have allowed people to hear a screen reader navigating the Start - Run Dialog.  I wouldn't make for a very good screen reader. =)

If you're running Windows XP and you're curious what a basic screen reader sounds like, Windows XP comes with a basic screen reader called Narrator.  Just go to Accessories - Accessibility - Narrator.

I mentioned two other screen readers, JAWS and Window-Eyes.  Both have demo versions available on their websites.

JAWS:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws5intro.asp

Window Eyes:
http://www.gwmicro.com/products/

Thanks!
-sara

posted by saraford

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187676460000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:47:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187676460000000 saraford Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio posted by Frankie Fresh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187679900000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:53:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187679900000000 Frankie Fresh Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio
Frankie Fresh wrote:
doesn't the windowskey-U shortcut bring that stuff up? 


Roger that, homey! Wink

posted by amg

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187774640000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:31:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187774640000000 amg Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio
But you're right, an extra mike would indeed have done the job!

posted by mvuijlst

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187926760000000 Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:44:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Sara-Ford-Accessibility-and-Visual-Studio#c632187926760000000 mvuijlst Re: Sara Ford - Accessibility and Visual Studio
Yep, WindowsKey+U does the trick too.  For every new keyboard shortcut i learn, i forget an older one.  =)

posted by saraford

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