Ah, to NVDA then!!! I love it! But back to jaws, hopefully they don't release any paid upgrades before jaws 10, it's my last SMA count or whatever it is and not sure I will be able to renew it. Also, I noticed your a Mozilla engineer? I am just learning XUL, and know some javascript. Is it possible to make an addon that watches for the bgsound tag and redirect it to your default player? I really don't wanna have to download QuickTime. Or could a similar thing be made available in an update?
Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Zehe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Firefox 3.0 Scripts > Hi everyone, > > Erin B. Edgar wrote: >> I have no idea. I've never used scripts with Firefox and never seen the >> need for them, so I'm not really sure what they do. I guess Donald is >> using >> JAWS 8. I never used that so I'm not sure how compatible it was with >> Firefox. >> > > First: JAWS 8 is also compatible with Firefox 3.0. > Second, the scripts that were originally written for Firefox 2 mostly > work as well with Firefox 3. They offer features such as bringing up the > JAWS Virtual Find dialog when pressing Ctrl+F, and allowing to read the > address bar with Insert+A. Without those scripts, these functions do not > work. > > With JAWS 8, it is no problem to use the Firefox 2.0 scripts with > Firefox 3.0. However, with JAWS 9, there are some undesired side effects > that do not happen if these scripts are not loaded. The most prominent > is that, when you open Firefox by visiting an URL from within an e-mail, > menus and dialog focus changes are not read byy JAWS. Alt-tabbing away > and back to Firefox fixes this. It appears that the Firefox scripts do > something that was needed for Firefox 2, but which is no longer > necessary for Firefox 3 and proves contraproductive. > > Derek Roberts wrote: > > WHAT?!?!?!??!?! but one of the jaws 90 updates says it has support > for firefox3 beta! It can't b that much different... > > > Well, "support" and "support" here mean two different things I guess. > The support for Firefox 3 beta inside JAWS is there, but that does not > mean that the technical support people at FS will give support for > issues around Firefox. So Don's statement that FS does not offer > technical support until JAWS 10 may very well be true. > > Marco > Mozilla Accessibility QA engineer > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
