Version History
The following Active Accessibility versions have been released:
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | Original add-on release for Windows 95. The RDK was supported only in the English version of the operating system. (1997) |
| 1.1 | Included in Windows 98. |
| 1.2.x | First revision of MSAA that was made available to both English and international versions of Windows. (1998) |
| 1.3.x | Additional support added for more languages. Introduced satellite DLL (oleaccrc.dll) for its international text resource library. Later the system components were integrated into Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 and beyond, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me. (1999) |
| 2.0 | First major revision of MSAA, adding support for Dynamic Annotation and MSAA Text. This version was integrated into Windows XP. Minor revisions have been made to the MSAA framework within subsequent versions of Windows. The 2.0 version of the RDK was made available to older platforms (Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, NT) in 2003. (2000–2008) |
| 3.0 | The framework has become part of the Windows Automation API 3.0, which is integrated into the Windows platform accessibility API set by MSAA and UI Automation (UIA). Windows Automation API is included in Windows 7 and available for Windows Vista and XP (2009) |
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