That's interesting. When I tried to run FF 57 with JAWS 18, I got a message warning me that my screen-reader would not function properly. This was a message/alert that came from Firefox itself, and not JAWS. And indeed, JAWS did not really work at all. However, the programme did not crash.
Whatever the case though, I'd still be curious to know why it is that there isn't even rudimentary support for FS Quantum in JAWS. It would seem that even with NVDA 17.3, the version I have as I still haven't installed the update, the change in Firefox was somewhat anticipated, and attempts were made to support it. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: December 15, 2017 6:38 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Internet Explorer or Jaws? Actually, on my system Firefox 57 works fine with NVDA, but Firefox crashes when i try to run it with JAWS 2018. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "JM Casey" <crystallo...@ca.inter.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Internet Explorer or Jaws? > Hey. > > While I don't know precisely what is going on, I don't think it's entirely > just to say that Mozilla has decided that accessibility is unimportant. In > fact, Firefox 57 does work fairly well, right now, with even the previous > (IE, not just released) version of NVDA. It's not perfect, but they have > promised that v58 will be better, and I see no reason to doubt them on > that. > In the meantime, we can keep using the ESR version, which will continue to > be supported, and works great with the screen-reader of your choice. I > don't > exactly know why NVDA is ahead of JAWS in this matter of Firefox > 57/Quantum, > , but I've yet to hear from anyone using JAWS 2018 and maybe it works > better > there? I have JAWS 18, and part of the reason I've been switching more and > more to NVDA lately is that I'm not really in any position to buy a JAWS > upgrade at this time. Still going to hang on to both though. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On > Behalf Of Randy Barnett > Sent: December 14, 2017 8:51 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Internet Explorer or Jaws? > > Since MS is no longer developing IE I think VFO is not going to keep > supporting it. Either that or they are very lazy about fixing the hang > issue > with IE since it has been going on for a couple of years now. > I dont like the way things are going for us. firefox has decided blind > accessibility is not important and Edge is not supported by Jaws very well > and IE is getting left behind that leaves us with Chrome... Good for > Google > not so good for us... > On 12/14/2017 5:31 PM, Judy Jones wrote: >> Hello again, >> >> >> >> Revisiting an old question. Wit, it seems, most everyone noticing the >> hangup of Internet Explorer at inopportune moments, is this due to the >> way it is now interacting with Jaws? Is there a fix that the >> developers need to buckle down and work on, or is this an >> uncooperative Microsoft issue? I have noticed this behavior in the >> last several versions of Jaws, but what can we users do to help "make it > better?" >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for the input. >> >> >> >> Judy >> >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > -- > Sincerely: Randy Barnett (Owner) > Soundtique > Grants Pass, Oregon. > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
