Hi,
I've seen a lot of conflicting information in today's list about
browsers, accessible or not, supported or not, and I'm still digging out
from today's Email and have a loooong way to go yet. Let's see if we can
settle this, shall we?
Taxwise had a link to an announcement from Microsoft which I ran across
yesterday. It has to do with the life cycle of Internet Explorer. It
reads in part:
"Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet
Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive
technical support and security updates..." That's followed by a table
listing each version of Windows, and the *only* version that will be
supported for that version of Windows. Don't take my word for it, read
it all at
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle#gp/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer
Edge has a lot bigger problems than just JAWS. (I've read that NVDA
wasn't any better with Edge, but I haven't updated my knowledge lately.)
For instance, our tax software provider has advised us not to use Edge
with it, although one of my volunteers used Edge in the practice version
of the software and it worked for him.
If you're using a modern operating system that is supported, the version
of Internet Explorer that is listed in the referenced table should work
with it as long as the operating system is supported. For Windows 7
Service Pack 1, that would be IE 11, and that would be until January of
2020, or until Microsoft changes its policy again.
Luckily for us JAWS users, Firefox and Chrome are light years ahead of
where they were a few years ago--and in the case of Chrome, a few months
ago! But I think we can all agree there are some things which just work
best in IE with JAWS. Fortunately, Edge has until 2020 to get it right,
again, unless Microsoft changes its policy, which it obviously has the
right to do. By 2020, half of us will probably have decided to get new
computers or phones or whatever devices we think are relevant in 2020.
I, for one, can't stress about it in 2016.
Hope this is helpful.
Brad
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