Hi. I've been finding that in some sites with Firefox 3 that some list boxes are reported as combo boxes. In these situations the alt-down arrow doesn't do anything. The arrows will navigate the list while out of browse mode. I haven't tried the same sites with IE to determine if its behavior is different. I've seen this on hotel sites where you're choosing options like dates.
It does seem that the problem with returning to a previous position is worse in Firefox than in IE. I've started using the speak summary key to tell me what line I'm on in a page. So, when and if I'm returned to the top of the page I use the any line key to get back to my spot. It does add steps but in the grand scheme it's not too bad. For me, the speed in FF makes up for the loss of position tracking. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael D. Lawler To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:35 AM Subject: Re: WE 7 and browse mode We are not able to duplicate the combobox problem as long as you use alt-down arrow. At 12:19 PM 10/14/2008, you wrote: I find some of the problems I am having such as the combo box problem bordering on show stoppers especially for certain boxes but I agree that taking the time to fix it properly is the best way. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael D. Lawler To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:17 AM Subject: Re: WE 7 and browse mode Speculation is such an interesting thing. We never said we were going to stop using MSAA. We are doing a rewrite because browse mode is over 10 years old and when it was created we didn't consider the need for multiple simultaneous buffers. The issues with AJAX and ARIA didn't exist. WE scripting which requires a lot more from browse mode didn't exist. Browse mode was created when we supported 9X which made it more complex code wise than it needed to be. From our perspective there is only one browse mode related problem that is a show stopper and that is a lockup where WE hangs under certain timing conditions when browse mode has been told to turn off and then immediately turn back on. We, with the new lockup code that I said we would work on post 7.0, are currently working to understand this issue enough to hopefully resolve it. The other issues, honestly, are anoyances that don't prevent people from functioning with browse mode and we are not just going to just knee jerk react and rush out something to silence people on this list. We are going to rework our browse mode code base and do it correctly which is a much better long term strategy. At 11:02 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: I understand the below: The only problem I have it back when browse mode was developed we were told that msaa was great. Other screen reader companies did there own proprietary stuff for this and gw was working with microsoft with msaa to do it right. Browse mode took a while etc. It's never worked correctly ... why the complete rewrite? When will this be done? I think most of us use the applications taht use browse mode the most of all apps. We need to truly get this fixed as soon as we can and certainly beofre we start adding more features. Thanks so listening to my views. Sam Bushman ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael D. Lawler To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:55 AM Subject: Re: WE 7 and browse mode We only stated that browse mode was going to be redone post 7.0. This is a major project and won't be released in any service pack or minor update. At 09:11 AM 10/14/2008, you wrote: Did I understand it correctly from the GW staff that they would be coming out with a WE 7 service pack soon after the release of WE 7 which would fix the browse mode problems that seemed to get worse with the new release? If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. 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