Re: Jaws cursor and firefox

2015-11-13 Thread Bill White via Jfw 
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 billwhite92...@dslextreme.com
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To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." 
Cc: "Jim L" 
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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Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-07 Thread dennis via Jfw 

this works. thanks so so so much.

On 3/6/2015 6:37 PM, Mike B. via Jfw wrote:

Hi Bill,

Try changing the following in, about:config.

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.

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

Take care.
Mike
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Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor in the
newest versions of Firefox?

I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


Going to the about:config in Firefox,
Change the
gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
to true
Change the
layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
to true.

However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when trying to
read with the JAWS cursor.

Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest versions of
Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it now an
impossibility?

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-07 Thread Kimsan via Jfw 
I think I did it right. I routed jaws to pc and kept hearing graphics and
numbers. I got stupid when I got to step 12...

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From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Maggi
Ostrowski via Jfw
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 10:19 AM
To: 'Bill White'; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.'
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox

Hi Bill,

Thank you for these instructions!  My JAWS cursor is now working with the
latest version of JAWS, Windows 7 and Firefox 36.0.1!

Maggi


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Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 12:47 AM
To: Kimsan; The Jaws for Windows support list.
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

No, you type Alt plus the letter L, and when the address bar comes up you
type about followed by a colon, and config without any spaces.

You will then be presented with a warning that you shouldn't change the
config file unless you know what you are doing. You need to uncheck the box
which says to display this message again next time. Then press the I'll be
careful button.

Once you have done this, there are three items in the config you need to
change.

I'll list them below.


1. Launch Mozilla Firefox.

2. Press Control-L to open a new link.

3. Type about:config and press Enter.

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 - z.

6. In the filter Edit Box type direct2d.disabled.

7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.

8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type
layers.acceleration.disabled.

10. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.

11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

12. change:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true

to

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean false

13. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.

13. Restart Firefox.



Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com
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From: Kimsan via Jfw jfw@lists.the-jdh.com
To: 'Mike B.' mb69ma...@charter.net; 'The Jaws for Windows support
list.' jfw@lists.the-jdh.com
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox


 Mike:
 How do I make that change? I remember a conversation aboot this topic 
 but ignored it, lol, now I need the refresher.  Do I just do CTRL l 
 and then type aboutconfig?

 -Original Message-
 From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. 
 via Jfw
 Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:38 PM
 To: Bill White; The Jaws for Windows support list.
 Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

 Hi Bill,

 Try changing the following in, about:config.

 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.

 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

 Take care.
 Mike
 This email was sent from my, iBarstool.

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 From: Bill White via Jfw
 To: jfw mailing list
 Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
 Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


 Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor 
 in the newest versions of Firefox?

 I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


 Going to the about:config in Firefox,
 Change the
 gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
 to true
 Change the
 layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
 to true.

 However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when 
 trying to read with the JAWS cursor.

 Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest 
 versions of Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it 
 now an impossibility?

 Thank you.
 Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-07 Thread Maggi Ostrowski via Jfw 
Hi Bill,

Thank you for these instructions!  My JAWS cursor is now working with the
latest version of JAWS, Windows 7 and Firefox 36.0.1!

Maggi


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From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Bill White via
Jfw
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 12:47 AM
To: Kimsan; The Jaws for Windows support list.
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

No, you type Alt plus the letter L, and when the address bar comes up you
type about followed by a colon, and config without any spaces.

You will then be presented with a warning that you shouldn't change the
config file unless you know what you are doing. You need to uncheck the box
which says to display this message again next time. Then press the I'll be
careful button.

Once you have done this, there are three items in the config you need to
change.

I'll list them below.


1. Launch Mozilla Firefox.

2. Press Control-L to open a new link.

3. Type about:config and press Enter.

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 - z.

6. In the filter Edit Box type direct2d.disabled.

7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.

8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type
layers.acceleration.disabled.

10. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.

11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

12. change:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true

to

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean false

13. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.

13. Restart Firefox.



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To: 'Mike B.' mb69ma...@charter.net; 'The Jaws for Windows support
list.' jfw@lists.the-jdh.com
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox


 Mike:
 How do I make that change? I remember a conversation aboot this topic 
 but ignored it, lol, now I need the refresher.  Do I just do CTRL l 
 and then type aboutconfig?

 -Original Message-
 From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. 
 via Jfw
 Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:38 PM
 To: Bill White; The Jaws for Windows support list.
 Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

 Hi Bill,

 Try changing the following in, about:config.

 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.

 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

 Take care.
 Mike
 This email was sent from my, iBarstool.

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 From: Bill White via Jfw
 To: jfw mailing list
 Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
 Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


 Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor 
 in the newest versions of Firefox?

 I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


 Going to the about:config in Firefox,
 Change the
 gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
 to true
 Change the
 layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
 to true.

 However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when 
 trying to read with the JAWS cursor.

 Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest 
 versions of Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it 
 now an impossibility?

 Thank you.
 Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-07 Thread Bill White via Jfw 
Hi, Kimsan. Did you ever get your Firefox to read with the JAWS cursor on 
your home page and not just hear graphics and numbers?


If not, e-mail me privately, and I can try to walk you through changing the 
layers.offmainthreadcomposition to false.

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From: Kimsan via Jfw jfw@lists.the-jdh.com
To: 'Maggi Ostrowski' mio...@comcast.net; 'The Jaws for Windows support 
list.' jfw@lists.the-jdh.com

Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox



I think I did it right. I routed jaws to pc and kept hearing graphics and
numbers. I got stupid when I got to step 12...

-Original Message-
From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Maggi
Ostrowski via Jfw
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 10:19 AM
To: 'Bill White'; 'The Jaws for Windows support list.'
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox

Hi Bill,

Thank you for these instructions!  My JAWS cursor is now working with the
latest version of JAWS, Windows 7 and Firefox 36.0.1!

Maggi


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From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Bill White 
via

Jfw
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 12:47 AM
To: Kimsan; The Jaws for Windows support list.
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

No, you type Alt plus the letter L, and when the address bar comes up you
type about followed by a colon, and config without any spaces.

You will then be presented with a warning that you shouldn't change the
config file unless you know what you are doing. You need to uncheck the 
box
which says to display this message again next time. Then press the I'll 
be

careful button.

Once you have done this, there are three items in the config you need to
change.

I'll list them below.


1. Launch Mozilla Firefox.

2. Press Control-L to open a new link.

3. Type about:config and press Enter.

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 - z.

6. In the filter Edit Box type direct2d.disabled.

7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one
called gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.

8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type
layers.acceleration.disabled.

10. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see 
one

called layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.

11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

12. change:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true

to

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean false

13. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.

13. Restart Firefox.



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To: 'Mike B.' mb69ma...@charter.net; 'The Jaws for Windows support
list.' jfw@lists.the-jdh.com
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox



Mike:
How do I make that change? I remember a conversation aboot this topic
but ignored it, lol, now I need the refresher.  Do I just do CTRL l
and then type aboutconfig?

-Original Message-
From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Mike B.
via Jfw
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:38 PM
To: Bill White; The Jaws for Windows support list.
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

Hi Bill,

Try changing the following in, about:config.

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.

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

Take care.
Mike
This email was sent from my, iBarstool.

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From: Bill White via Jfw
To: jfw mailing list
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor
in the newest versions of Firefox?

I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


Going to the about:config in Firefox,
Change the
gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
to true
Change the
layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
to true.

However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when
trying to read with the JAWS cursor.

Is there something

Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-06 Thread Mike B. via Jfw 
Hi Bill,

Try changing the following in, about:config.

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.

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

Take care.
Mike
This email was sent from my, iBarstool.

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From: Bill White via Jfw
To: jfw mailing list
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor in the 
newest versions of Firefox?

I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


Going to the about:config in Firefox,
Change the
gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
to true
Change the
layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
to true.

However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when trying to 
read with the JAWS cursor.

Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest versions of 
Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it now an 
impossibility?

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-06 Thread john.falter via Jfw 

Hi Bill:
I tried the same procedure and got no good results.
For several releases those changes we were advised to make were already 
made and still no joy.

The JAWS cursor seemsto work well in Thunderbird, but not in Firefox.
Some Firefox links don't work for JAWS or NVDA.


On 3/6/2015 12:06 PM, Bill White via Jfw wrote:

Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor in the 
newest versions of Firefox?

I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


Going to the about:config in Firefox,
Change the
gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
to true
Change the
layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
to true.

However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when trying to 
read with the JAWS cursor.

Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest versions of 
Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it now an impossibility?

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

2015-03-06 Thread Bill White via Jfw 
No, you type Alt plus the letter L, and when the address bar comes up you 
type about followed by a colon, and config without any spaces.


You will then be presented with a warning that you shouldn't change the 
config file unless you know what you are doing. You need to uncheck the box 
which says to display this message again next time. Then press the I'll be 
careful button.


Once you have done this, there are three items in the config you need to 
change.


I'll list them below.


1. Launch Mozilla Firefox.

2. Press Control-L to open a new link.

3. Type about:config and press Enter.

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 - z.


6. In the filter Edit Box type direct2d.disabled.

7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one 
called gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.


8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type 
layers.acceleration.disabled.


10. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one 
called layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.


11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.

12. change:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true

to

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean false

13. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.

13. Restart Firefox.



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Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS cursor with Firefox



Mike:
How do I make that change? I remember a conversation aboot this topic but
ignored it, lol, now I need the refresher.  Do I just do CTRL l and then
type aboutconfig?

-Original Message-
From: Jfw [mailto:jfw-boun...@lists.the-jdh.com] On Behalf Of Mike B. via
Jfw
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:38 PM
To: Bill White; The Jaws for Windows support list.
Subject: Re: JAWS cursor with Firefox

Hi Bill,

Try changing the following in, about:config.

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.

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

Take care.
Mike
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- Original Message -
From: Bill White via Jfw
To: jfw mailing list
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:06 AM
Subject: JAWS cursor with Firefox


Does anyone know how to allow reading web pages with the JAWS cursor in 
the

newest versions of Firefox?

I tried doing what someone advised in the following manner:


Going to the about:config in Firefox,
Change the
gfx.direct2d.disabled with a default value of False.
to true
Change the
layers.acceleration.disabled with a default value of False.
to true.

However this still only gives me a couple of graphic symbols when trying 
to

read with the JAWS cursor.

Is there something else which needs to be changed in the newest versions 
of

Firefox to allow reading with the JAWS cursor, or is it now an
impossibility?

Thank you.
Bill White billwhite92...@dslextreme.com


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