automated testing tools (slightly OT)

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 11:39:43 AM, you wrote:

> Do you know offhand how this affects screen readers, such as those use
> for the blind?

I don't, but the subject came up on another listserv a while back. I'm
pretty sure the results would be the same. At least with the standard
QA automation tools you can verify results by taking a snapshot of a
textbox and then comparing the bitmap to a previous bitmap. It's ugly
and error-prone, but it's sometimes the only workaround. Screen
readers wouldn't have this option since they need to grab actual text.

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-Mark Wieder
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