AxsJAX (Access-Enabling AJAX) is an open source JavaScript library for enhancing the accessibility of Web 2.0 applications. One of the key abstractions that AxsJAX provides to web developers is the ability to cause assistive technology (AT) to speak. Although AT do not provide such an interface to web developers, they do respond in predictable ways to events. By using WAI-ARIA, AxsJAX is able to manipulate the DOM such that an ARIA-aware browser + AT combination will generate and receive the necessary events which cause the AT to speak what the web developer wishes to be spoken.