Hi Allan, I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard of Firefox. It is a free and open source web browser developed by Mozilla and is considered to be the most widely used web browser currently. There are versions of Firefox for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. As well as a number of other Unix based platforms like FreeBSD, Solaris, and so on. Basically, the point is it has a very large user base.
Anyway, as far as accessibility goes that depends on which version of Firefox you have and if your Jaws scripts etc are up to date. Since I don't have or use Jaws I can't comment about Firefox and Jaws accessibility goes. I do have NVDA 2012 and I can say I have no accessibility issues using Firefox 13 with NVDA. On Linux Orca 3.4.2 also seems to handle Firefox 13 pretty well so the web browser is pretty accessible all things considered. However, if your Jaws is slightly out of date you might have to use an older version of Firefox as I don't know if older versions of Jaws supports the latest and greatest versions of Firefox. Firefox has had quite a lot of upgrades the last year or so and some screen readers tend to fall behind since they tend not to upgrade as often as Firefox does. As far as playing browser based games with Firefox its about the same as with Internet Explorer. Weather a person likes Firefox or Internet Explorer really comes down to personal preference. Personally I am a huge fan of Firefox, could give you all kinds of reasons why Firefox is a superior web browser, but in the end the most important thing is what a person is comfortable with. Cheers! On 7/24/12, Allan Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > I never heard of firefox. Is that another type of internet browser? Does it > work better for games too? or should I say works better with Jaws perhaps. > > Thanks, > al > "The truth will set you free" > Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
