Hi Sharon, This note pertains to FF 34 but, since I did this I haven't had any Jaws cursor problems with the latest version as well.
From: Harri Tuominen Hello! Perhaps you should change this value from "true" to "false" in about config page: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled I use Firefox 34.0 with JAWS 15.0.12085 and the JAWS cursor works quite well. See also this discussion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095971 Harri This is the default setting: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true This is what I changed it to: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean false With this line of text highlighted, press the application key to open the context menu & press the letter, T, to toggle it to true or false. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Gosling To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS cursor not reading anything in Firefox Tried this with latest FF and Jaws cursor still just reads Graphics numbers. I am using Win 7. Are these directions for Win 8? Sherrie Gosling -----Original Message----- From: Mike B. Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS cursor not reading anything in Firefox Hi Sharon & Prateek, Try the following: Question: Is there a way to use the JAWS Cursor in Firefox? Answer: You can use the JAWS Cursor in Firefox after turning off Firefox's hardware acceleration setting. 1. In Firefox, press ALT+T to open the Tools Menu and then choose Options. 2. From the Advanced options, choose the General tab. 3. Press TAB to move to the Use Hardware Acceleration when Available checkbox. Press the SPACEBAR to clear it, then press ENTER to close the dialog box. Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Gosling To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS cursor not reading anything in Firefox I did as directed and Jaws cursor still reads nothing except some graphic numbers. Also, Jaws did not recognize forms mode on my Google home page so I put it back the way it was and the forms mode works again. Using latest Jaws and latest FF on Win 7. Maybe these directions are for Win 8? Sherrie Gosling Now I will go back and change it back in case it messed something up. -----Original Message----- From: Angela Delicata Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS cursor not reading anything in Firefox Hi, This is also for tb. Firefox and Thunderbird both use Direct2D rendering by default. This prevents the JAWS cursor from detecting information. Fortunately it is easy to disable this rendering. You need to do it once for each version of Firefox and Thunderbird you use on your system. To do this you need to set two configuration variables to true: gfx.direct2d.disabled, and layers.acceleration.disabled. 1. Open the Configuration Editor. In Firefox, enter about:config in the address bar. In Thunderbird, go to the Tools menu and navigate to Options, Advanced, General, then Config Editor. 2. Once in the Configuration editor, press TAB until you are in the list of options. 3. Pressing UP or DOWN ARROW will move you between options or typing the first few letters of an option's name will move you to a specific option in the list. In this case, type gfx and press DOWN ARROW to gfx.direct2d.disabled. 4. Assuming the option is set to false, press the APPLICATIONS KEY to open the context menu and choose Toggle. This will change the option to true. 5. Go through the same process for layers.acceleration.disabled. 6. Close the Configuration Editor and restart Firefox or Thunderbird. The JAWS cursor should now show content. Hth. Angela from Italy Il 01/04/2015 21:19, Dujari, Prateek ha scritto: > Hello gang. > I've been noticing consistently on my Win8 JFW16 PC that arrowing around > web pages using the JAWS cursor in Firefox reads nothing at all including > the many bars and such while doing so in Internet Explorer reads > everything just fine. 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