A step in the right direction for Ajax accessibility
Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner have written this excellent article Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users, a follow up to their previous article Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers.
Here they explain how Jaws 7.1 has improved in such a way that the “virtual buffer” can now be updated via a scripting method, which allows for Ajax interactivity to actually be of some use to a screen reader user.