[nfbcs] FW: VS2019 releases today

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

Microsoft has gotten a lot of feedback from people on the Program-L listserv. Here are the results:

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
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The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

From: program-l-bounce at freelists.org <program-l-bounce at freelists.org> On Behalf Of Dante Gagne
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 1:37 PM
To: program-l at freelists.org
Subject: [program-l] VS2019 releases today

Hey folks,

I'm very proud to announce that Visual Studio 2019 is available today for download. You can download it from this link: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

As folks here have assuredly been aware, we've been working VERY hard on getting the compatibility with screen readers up, and to my knowledge, the number of remaining issues is in the single digits. If anyone wants a link to the VPAT documents, I can happily forward those on.

I would be VERY interested in any feedback that folks have got, positive or negative. Feel free to e-mail me directly (DanteG at microsoft.com<mailto:DanteG at microsoft.com>).

I also want to share that as a division, we're turning the corner from compliance to usability. We don't consider it enough that folks who use screen readers can get their job done, but we want folks to feel like the product is usable. I know that I've been working heavily on taking the feedback that folks have given me and used that to push quality of life changes into Visual Studio, and I would like to get MORE of that feedback. I'm happy to keep too much of that chatter offlist... I don't want everyone to have to constant hear all of that... but when I ask for feedback, please understand that I sincerely mean "No feedback is too small".

And I want to thank the folks on this list again. My team is very proud of Visual Studio 2019 and all the work we've done. And folks here have been very helpful and supportive of our efforts. I can comfortably point to several pieces of functionality that are better because of the feedback I've collected from folks on this list, and really wanted folks to know how much I appreciate that help.

Thanks again all, and I'll be reaching out soon as our processes expand into that "Usability" that I described above.

--Dante