Brad, Your experience with different browsers is very helpful and has persuaded me to download Firefox. I have found that with FB it is difficult at times to know what has the current focus with IE11 as well. Thanks for the information. Any problems with having both Firefox and IE both on your system at the same time, such as changing defaults as part of updates? Thanks.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Martin via Jfw Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 8:04 PM To: Paul Martz; The Jaws for Windows support list.; 'Kurt Streuber' Subject: Re: Jaws with facebook? I have to be honest. I keep both Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox (whatever version is current this week) on my computer. Flash stuff works better in IE, and things with active content like Paul describes here are more effectively managed in Firefox. I've found that when activating little popup dialogs within web pages, Firefox is more likely to get the memo that something has been added without having to force the screen to redraw. It is for this reason that I have switched to Firefox as my primary browser. But there are some sites, mostly that I use for work, which function better with IE. What the original post described, Facebook not reading when moving around etc., almost sounds like what happens to me in Google Chrome. But I do have one thought. Are you hearing JAWS say "Application Mode On"? In Internet Explorer, and especially on older computers with older JAWS versions, that "application mode" will make me crazy. That type of stuff works better in Firefox for the most part. For the record, I'm not having any trouble doing what I do on Facebook using Firefox. As has been discussed on this list previously, tagging people is much easier in Firefox than Internet Explorer 11, although I think I could do it when I had IE 10. Hope this is helpful, Brad On 1/9/2015 2:16 PM, Paul Martz via Jfw wrote: > I'm using JAWS 15 on Win7 with IE 11 and I have always found Facebook > to be difficult to use. In particular, tabbing into text edit fields > frequently fails to enable autoforms mode, and focus is left on > another control, which means that if I hit enter (which I would > normally do in a text box to enable autoforms mode), another control > gets activated. Often, the control that gets activated incorrectly is > the button to upload a file, which means that Internet Explorer puts > me in a file open dialog. This incorrect behavior is really quite frustrating. > > I've looked at the FS documentation designed specifically for FB > usage, but I haven't found it to be helpful at all. I've also seen an > article about WAI-ARIA controls in FB, and this article was also not helpful. > > I'm currently using FB primarily from an iOS device with VoiceOver. > This works really well, although the capabilities are of course rather > limited compared to the full FB site. > > I'll be upgrading to JAWS 16 in a few days, and I'll post back here if > I experience a noticeable improvement. > -Paul > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Brad Martin [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> My Facebook page where I post online shopping coupons and deals: facebook.com/ucoupons <http://www.facebook.com/ucoupons> My SmarterBucks signup link <http://bit.ly/1w5FCPu> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/201501 09/9aa521e6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
