Kelly Ford, from the IE Accessibility Team, posted today in the IEBlog about IE7′s expected behavior with a variety of commercial screen readers and screen magnifiers.

The general sound of things is that IE7 will be compatible (or mostly compatible) with the most recent versions of most assistive technology software.

Although the number of products detailed on the IEblog is quite small, it does cover the better known products in assistive technology, all of which either are currently compatible with IE7 or will be patched for compatibility within the next month.

The information in the post is brief and provides little information about any kind of advanced functionality: however, if you want to verify whether your assistive technology will be compatible with IE7 it’s probably best that you check this out — before you install IE7!

 Foreword:

No way. I’m NOT writing this article.

Seriously! There is no way I’m going to do this!

You’ve kidnapped my mother? Nope. Still not doing it.

You’ll take away my browser? Erp…Fine. But I won’t like it.

Seriously, there is one tiny thing that I really love about IE: conditional comments. Admittedly, their main function is to make it possible for me to fix the piles of other problems IE causes, but I nonetheless find them to be really fantastic. In fact, I wish that every browser had its own version of conditional comments.

Read more: What I Love About IE

This post has nothing to do with IE7‘s support for CSS, adherence to web standards, or general functionality. Instead, it’s a general complaint about one specific annoyance: why did Microsoft’s IE development team want IE7 to “click”?

I mean, as a marketing metaphor, it’s great. Everybody wants their product to “click”. However, in this case I think they’ve taken it a bit too literally.

Read more: Internet Explorer 7: Irritation of the Day