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Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Icido Gesellschaft Für Innovative Informationssysteme Mbh

Andreas Rössler

Josef Dietl

Ralf Breining

Guillaume Maigret

Martin Moosburger

Jan Wurster

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing information to a screen reader. A method includes the actions of receiving at a client side information for representing a web page in a browser; setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user; and in response to a user command directing the focus to an element of the web page, determining whether the element is present in a functionality map, and if so, looking up the element in the functionality map, then processing the element as indicated by a corresponding entry point in the map, and if not, providing the focus and information related to web page elements associated with the focus to a placeholder control, and providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control.

Matching user interface elements to screen reader functions

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing information to a screen reader. A method includes the actions of receiving information for representing a web page in a browser; setting focus initially on an element of the web page and presenting the web page to a user; and in response to a user command directing the focus to consecutive target elements of the web page, assigning information related to each target element to a placeholder control and providing a screen reader with access to the placeholder control as the element having focus.

Presenting user interface elements to a screen reader using placeholders

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Sulzfeld, Germany

Andreas Rössler