Hi all, Below is a link to an article appearing on Marco's Accessibility Blog in September of this year that discusses the changes in architecture that will impact on screen readers. A bit heavy reading but it makes it pretty clear that we AT users are likely to find some big bumps coming our way for a while. Love to hear interpretations and assessments from more tech minded folks on the list. Rick https://www.marcozehe.de/
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:57 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like screen-readers 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! 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/
