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About time! Engineers at Redmond are currently busy working on a few huge improvements for the new Microsoft Edge web browser, including support for extensions.
But the company is also preparing some features that might sound less exciting, but are still vital.
Not just for users, but also in defining the future of the brand new browser.
Accessibility features, that is to say.
Microsoft plans to introduce several such options in the coming months, as revealed by the development team earlier today in a blog post.
The software titan has admitted that Edge is not quite the advanced browser that it was supposed to be, at least when it comes to accessibility features.
But that will soon change:
“We recognize Microsoft Edge isn’t where it needs to be to provide a fully accessible browsing experience. Building a new browser required new user experience work in all levels of the product, including accessibility.
Windows Insiders and others in the accessibility community have provided valuable feedback which we’re using to prioritize improvements to the accessibility of the browser’s controls and the web itself in Microsoft Edge that will be available in the coming months.”
Improved keyboarding is one such addition, and narrator support for the major UI elements like the address bar, settings, favorites, history and downloads have been confirmed. Enhanced flash accessibility and semantically tagged PDFs for paragraphs, links and images is also being worked on.
Now all we need to know is when these huge new additions will be released.
Will they make it to the update that Microsoft plans to launch before the end of the year?
Fingers crossed.
source (http://www.windows10update.com/2015/09/accessibility-features-coming-to-microsoft-edge-soon/)