Here! Here! We seem to be in a down turn right now. My question is why
should we have to put up with it? Why do we have to accept inferior
access other than "Oh thats just the way it is"?
If we are totally accepting we wont ever get better access to technology.
On 10/26/2017 7:34 AM, JM Casey wrote:
Yeah, really. Doesn't it kind of feel like the early 90s all over again,
where you would try to run a program and find it needed Windows, which you
couldn't use because screen-readers only really worked with MSDos?
As an aside, and not to be a grumpy old codger, but I really dislike this
new modern apps (the ones introduced with Windows 10) and their
layout/interface. I understand it brings things more in line with
smartphones and cross-platform is good. But I'm on a desktop; I want it to
behave like a desktop, damit.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Randy Barnett
Sent: October 25, 2017 6:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox Quantum is coming, and it doesn't like
screen-readers
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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