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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mariah Sigourney Moon, Seattle, WA (US);
Zhaoyu Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Lukasz Zygmunt Makar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew Walker Campbell, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ravi Gupta, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods for determining a logical starting location to start providing (e.g., reading) content to a user. When the user navigates to a particular web page and/or email message, a screen reader can automatically read content associated with the web page and/or email message beginning at the determined logical starting location. A heuristic can be applied in order to determine the logical starting location. The heuristic can analyze information regarding user interface element(s) (e.g., property(ies) and/or attribute(s)) of the particular webpage and/or email message to find a logical location to start reading once the webpage and/or email message have loaded.