Yeah, I have been using jaws since the mid 90's and see the same issues
you do with the modern approach to Windows and other software. This is a
hard time to be a blind PC user. Hearing about how cool this or that is
on the web and how everyone can find out anything and everything while I
struggle with a captcha or have jaws drowned out by a video ad or try to
find some news on a site that is constantly updating and has
inaccessible links buried in a ton of java or flash sucks.
On 10/25/2017 2:57 PM, JM Casey wrote:
So..
Has anyone Hey folks. Haven't seen any discussion about this yet. On another
list, someone posted an article about this, which I cannot seem to find the
URL for, but if people are interested I guess I could cross-post it. In
brief: Firefox Quantum has a new "multiprocessing" approach that means it
will be twice as fast for everyone else, but it will not play nicely with
JAWS or other screen-readers. We're essentially at the same stage now (or
will be come November) as we are with Edge, in that it's going to be a work
in progress for quite some time, and from what I've read, it may be
difficult to continue implementing the virtual buffer concept. This is, to
me, annoying to say the least, as I use Firefox all the time and have been
really happy with it up til now. I also think the virutal buffer a great
innovation for web browsing and would hate to give it up, unless a better
alternative was developed.
Has anyone thoughts on this? I used to laugh at "old people" (in quotes
there, in case you have punctuation set to "some" or "none") who moaned
about things changing too fast and that they couldn't keep up. Now, at 37,
I'm feeling the bite. I'm happy to no longer be using Windows XP, yet it
seems like every month (since getting Windows 10 and JAWS 18 in particular),
there's some new thing I have to fix that wasn't broken before; some time I
have to spend figuring a workaround to one thing or another, or a doomful
press release about how I won't be able to use this-or-that once a certain
update happens.
Fortunately, for us Firefox users, I guess we can still install the ESR
(Extended Support Release) of the browser, and get security updates, without
a Quantum upgrade, until sometime in 2018. Guess I'll be doing that, then!
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