it figures. Every time you take 3 steps forward, they push you back 2.
Vince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Lee" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like
screen-readers
Hi,
And Narrator won't work with it either.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of cheez
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like
screen-readers
You think Windows Narrator will work, since Narrator works with Edge?
Vince
----- Original Message -----
From: "JM Casey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 2:57 PM
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!
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