Hi, Jim. Try this to make the JAWS Cursor read the contents on pages with
Firefox.
How to make the JAWS Cursor Accessible in Firefox
When using Mozilla Firefox version 4 or newer, reviewing web pages using the
JAWS Cursor is problematic. Mozilla is using a new graphical technology in
Firefox version 4 and newer which bypasses the offscreen model, (OSM). Since
JAWS For Windows depends on the OSM to allow the user to review the screen
using the JAWS Cursor, things don't work the same as with older versions of
Firefox, (such as version 3.6).
Solution:
1. Launch Mozilla Firefox.
2. Press Control-L to open a new link.
3. Type "about:config" and press Enter.
(All commands to type do not include the quotation marks)
4. If you are presented with a dialog which warns you about the dangers of
making changes, Tab to the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button and press
Enter.
5. At this point you should be out of Virtual Cursor mode and on a filter
Edit Box. If not, turn off Virtual Cursor mode by pressing JAWS Key plus z.
6. In the filter Edit Box type
"composition.enabled"
7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled with a value of true
8. Press Enter to toggle this value to False.
9. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.
10. Restart Firefox.
you should now be able to use the JAWS Cursor to review web pages while
using Mozilla Firefox version 36.0.1 and newer.
Bill White [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim L via Jfw" <[email protected]>
To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jim L" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 12:37 PM
Subject: Jaws cursor and firefox
Heya folks,
For a long time now and to be honest when I do a jaws cursor on any
firefox
page all I get is graphic graphic etc etc and it never reads a thing
whenever I am in that mode, I have taken the suggestion from others on
here
to disable hardware accelaration or something like that and it doesn't do
anything, I currently am running latest Jaws 17 and latest firefox but all
previous versions on both gave me the same feedback with Jaws cursor and
afirefox page, if anyone can help me I'd appreciate it as i want firefox
to
work like an IE page when I Jaws cursor as we know theres some things on
a
website only Jaws cursor can activate.
Cheers,
Jim
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