Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Carolina Hernandez

Ravi Gupta

Mariah Sigourney Moon

Jason Anthony Grieves

Elbio Renato Torres Abib

Annice Jumani

Lukasz Zygmunt Makar

Panuruj Khambanonda

Vanguri Madhuri

Sichen Lu

Joel Schweitzer

Wesley Allan Witt

Cullen Sauls

Matthew Walker Campbell

Douglas Harold Geoffray

Jane Jayoung Yoon

Rohan Singhal

Jeffrey Allen Bishop

Lindy Rose Le

Described herein is a system and method for detecting a layout table by a screen reader. Information regarding a document being displayed by an application is received from an application programming interface of a user interface automation system that provides information regarding user interface elements of application and/or the application. The information includes an indication that the document comprises a table. A determination is made as to whether the table is a data table or a layout table based upon the received information using a rule-based heuristic. When it is determined that the table is a layout table, presentation information associated with the layout table can be skipped over, and, cell data content within the layout table provided. Thus, for a determined layout table, the system and method allow the screen reader to act as if the containing table doesn't exist, but still read the content.

Detection of layout table(s) by a screen reader

Described herein is a screen reader system for providing contextually relevant information for ambiguous link(s). Input is received from a user requesting information about a particular link of a web page. In response to the received user input, a request for contextually relevant information regarding the particular link (e.g., page identifier) is provided to a search engine. The request can include a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the particular link. Contextually relevant information regarding the particular link is received from the search engine. The received contextually relevant information is provided (e.g., displayed and/or read) to the user in response to the received request for information.

Providing contextually relevant information for ambiguous link(s)

Described herein is a screen reader providing a summary with popular link(s). The screen reader can provide a request for popular link information regarding a particular web resource to a search engine. The request can include a URL associated with the particular web resource. The request can be provided in response to a user request for a summary and/or the request can be provided based upon a user configurable setting (e.g., a quantity of popular links to be displayed). The screen reader can receive popular link information regarding the particular web resource from the search engine. The screen reader can then provide a summary comprising at least some of the received popular link information to the user. In response to selection of a particular popular link, the screen reader can redirect the browser to display a web resource associated with the particular popular link.

Screen reader summary with popular link(s)

Systems and methods are disclosed regarding the positioning related data in a browser on a client device received from a server. The browser on the client device is capable of being resized in a number of potential sizes&#x2014;e.g., desktop browser viewport, laptop browser viewport, tablet browser viewport and mobile browser viewport. Related data may comprise main data, relevant data and ancillary data. Depending on the browser viewport and the relevancy of the data to be displayed, one embodiment may dynamically position the relevant data to be near the top of the main data. Alternatively, ancillary data may be dynamically positioned to be near the bottom of the main data.

Adapting multiple column layout to a single column based on data relevancy

Systems and methods are disclosed regarding the reformatting tabular data in a browser on a client device received from a server. The browser on the client device is capable of being resized in a number of potential sizes&#x2014;e.g., desktop browser viewport, laptop browser viewport, tablet browser viewport and mobile browser viewport. Tabular data may comprise main data, row data and associated column data. Depending on the browser viewport, one embodiment may dynamically position the tabular data so that the associated column data is displayed near its associated row data.

Transformation of tabular data across multiple browser viewports

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Carolina Hernandez