Hello young Casey: I am more than twice your age, began using computers with IBM DOS and MS DOS, also Pick OS, the precursor of SQL, began using JAWS in 1989 with its DOS 1.0 version, when through the horrible beginning of Windows when it was totally inaccessible to us (until version 3.1), remember when we thought a 300 BAUD modem and the IBM AT (286) were super fast, the opening of the Internet with Windows 95 but not for us until Arkenstone shared with Henter-Joyce the way to access the OSM and HJ came out with JFW, many subsequent terrifying changes; it is normal to resist them and now that they seem to proliferate as a geometric progression, it is becoming much more difficult to catch up.
It is an act of balance, sometimes things become more difficult for a while, but eventually somebody figures out a solution, there are many smart people out there. Just think where would we be if Ted Henter had not lost his eyesight. Have patience, things will work out, granted, not as fast as we would like, but they will nevertheless. Have you heard of a text-based browser called WebIE? It was written by Dr. Alasdair King from England , years ago and was totally accessible, very fast. I have not tried it with Windows 10, but used to work with Windows 7, so it probably works with Windows 10 as well. You might give it a tryand see. He has other excellent programs, notable Accessible Potcatcher, all free. Regards, Humberto -----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/
