John, Reading information on the screen using the Window-Eyes mouse hot keys requires the availability of an accurate off screen model. The off screen model can be thought of a database that Window-Eyes uses to keep track of all of the content displayed on the screen. The off screen model is a very old screen reading technique. While it can provide some very useful benefits, it also has many limitations especially in newer operating systems. Window-Eyes has to use many different techniques to populate its off screen model depending on how the particular application or operating system displays information on the screen. As you know, we implemented mouse hot key support in previous versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. But, Mozilla recently made a significant change to these applications and started using a completely different display technology under the hood. When this change tool place, the Window-Eyes mouse hot key implementation we had been using stopped working. It might be p ossible to implement new support for Mouse hot keys in these programs but this would not be a trivial task and most likely would take a great deal of time and effort. I hope this explanation helps you better understand the challenges screen reader developers face and clarifies that these types of complex problems are not as easy to fix as some people might think. Regards, Marc
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john riehl via Talk Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 5:40 PM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <[email protected]> Subject: numpad mouse keys still not working in Firefox I was disappointed that the numpad mouse keys still do not work in Firefox in Windoweyes 9.2. WindowEyes staff, what's the reason this issue wasn't able to be fixed? Thanks. John riehl _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/msolomon%40aisquared.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
