Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vanguri Madhuri

Ravi Gupta

Carolina Hernandez

Mariah Sigourney Moon

Jason Anthony Grieves

Wesley Allan Witt

Elbio Renato Torres Abib

Cullen Sauls

Lukasz Zygmunt Makar

Matthew Walker Campbell

Sichen Lu

Jane Jayoung Yoon

Jeffrey Allen Bishop

Lindy Rose Le

Douglas Harold Geoffray

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 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)

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