We at Opera care about accessibility and usability issues and we have been working hard on improved screen reader compatibility. The accessibility project was started, aiming among other things at enhancing our screen reader support.

At this point, we are able to announce that we have made great progress and the new functionality will be available in the coming weekly of kestrel.

These are the main points that have been accomplished.

On Windows:

• Good support for the Microsoft Accessibility API (MSAA).
  
• Close cooperation with other screen reader vendors.
  

On Mac:

• Excellent support of the Mac API for Accessibility.
  
• Excellent support of VoiceOver.
  

Additionally we met Aaron Leventhal, Mozilla's accessibility guru, this week. In cooperation with Mozilla we'll establish better standards concerning accessibility in Web browsers. It is great to work with people like Aaron - thank you!

And this is only the beginning. We will have more coming on the accessibility side in the coming weeks and months!