Hi Adrian, Well, there sure as hell is a downside to this Caret Browsing extension! A totally blind person will never know if it's on or off! I know that with enough experimentation a totally blind person would probably be able to figure out if it's on or off, but I don't need to be wasting that kind of time when Caret Browsing in Firefox or Internet Explorer works just fine, & Jaws asks you if you want to turn on Caret Browsing whenever you press the, F7 key, or the, control + F7, keystroke in FF or IE. About the only thing I have found Chrome good for is downloading, & it does download much faster than either FF or IE. I've also heard how much safer Chrome is to use, but if you use safe browsing habits along with good antivirus / Internet security programs, you can use any browser, & not be this frustrated. Personally I think I've wasted enough time with Chrome, & I think I'm through with it. I'll keep it installed for 1 of those days when I feel like getting experimental, but I don't see that anytime soon. I can use the time to try to communicate with our new roommate, my extremely hard of hearing mother in law, well maybe not, LOL, hahaha hahaha hahaha, LOL Take care. Mike Global warming? Most likely caused from hot air generated by politicians! ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 8:51 PM Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS?
David, Are you as sure of this as we were told Google Chrome is “completely accessible”? I say this because this topic is new to the list and everyone is understandably excited, but I’m not yet convinced we’ve ensured there’s no down side. I, for one, won’t commit my system to caret browsing until I understand why an option that has been available for years is suddenly one we can all use without consequences. From: David Moore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 9:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS? Hi, There is no problem with turning on the caret in IE or any other browser. Have a great one. From: Adrian Spratt Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS? I vaguely recall hearing about some harmful consequence from turning “caret browsing” on in IE, but nothing I find online confirms my dim memory. Wiki says both IE and Firefox allow for caret browsing, but Chrome does not. Here’s another article that seems to suggest caret browsing could help people working together with the screen and a screenreader. Note the spelling, which some listers didn’t get right: c a r e t: https://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie11/ From: Bill White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 6:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS? Hi, Brian. You won't find the word Caret anywhere in the JAWS materials, because JAWS has no setting for caret browsing. This is only a setting found within the advanced settings of Internet Explorer. It won't help anyone with JAWS, unless they are using Internet Explorer as their current application. Bill White [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Vogel To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 2:37 PM Subject: Re: How Can Sighted People Tell Where I Am At on a Screen in JAWS? On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 02:17 pm, Maria Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: Um, probably, but what does it do? I've always been unclear on this account, too. I just finished searching the JAWS 15, 16, & 17 Keystroke documents as well as the more comprehensive one someone gave the link to in another thread. None have the word "caret" anywhere to be found. The only place I've found anything on caret browsing in the JAWS materials I have that are electronically searchable, and that's lots from FS download, is in one of the files Mike B provided. There's even mention of it in the FS documentation for MAGic. Brian __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 12961 (20160201) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
