MSAA (MicroSoft Active Accessibility) is MicroSoft's support for accessing Windows. I would say it has 3 major components: Features for handling graphics. This is the part that requires the most effort by developers of mainstream applications. Also, here "graphics" is a fairly generic term--including everything on the screen except for the general organization of the screen into Windows windows and text. Also, applications are to notify screen readers when the focus moves. This portion of MSAA provides a screen reader information about a graphic: how to use it, a description of what it looks like, current setting, etc. Support for retrieving text. There's a hook that should facilitate retrieving text from a Windows screen and track the insertion bar. I/O Support. Provides functions for simulating mouse and keyboard input. Also, there's a standard API for driving a synthesizer. Glen On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Franklin Johnson wrote: > I have recently joined this list and this is the first I have seen of > MSAA. What is it and what does it do? > > to keep from clogging up the list you may post me personally if you so > desire. > > Franklin Johnson > RRTC Center On Blindness > Mississippi State University >