Hey everyone. I'm running JAWS 18 on a Windows 10, 64-bit machine. Last week, my Firefox was updated to the Quantum, version 57, release. As has been discussed on this list, there are issues with accessibility with this version of the programme, and although I found it worked *almost* fine with NVDA, it did not work at all with JAWS, which I'm not entirely ready to give up using or anything. So, I decided to switch to the 52 (ESR) version, as recommended by many people and accessibility blogs. Instalation seemed to go fine, but I found that although I could go to a website without problems using ctrl-l, and sometimes search for something on that site, links would not activate with the enter key-press. JAWS definitely recognises that a link is there and I think the cursor is in the right place. I can also activate the links using the context menu, in a new tab or window. But enter simply does nothing. Another weird thing I noticed is that when this is happening, alt-f4 will not close firefox, and I must do it with the programme's menu option.
I uninstalled Firefox altogether this time, as the first time I just tried to install v.52 over v.57 without uninstalling the programme, which is *supposed* to work. But starting fresh is sometimes good, right? Well, to my joy, the programme (firefox) seemed to be working great for a couple of days. This afternoon though, when I loaded the browser to check the mobile facebook site, once again, links would not activate with the enter key and the programme wouldn't close normally. I'm not positive these two things are related, but thinking about it now, I almost always close programmes with alt-f4 and I'm quite sure this is how I always closed firefox until now. Anyone have any clues as to what the devil might be going on? I'm going to have to switch permanently to Chrome if this keeps up. I even went to internet Explorer for a bit, but a lot of sites I go to regularly, like goodreads.com, simply do not work properly with that browser anymore, and it's very definitely being phased out by mS in favour of Edge, so I'd rather just put it to sleep permanently. Firefox has been my go-to browser for years anyway and I don't think I've ever had any issues like this, until now. Thanks. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
