Google is your friend. Do a little research and you'll see a long list
of problems with Windows 10 and Edge for the sighted folks as well. A
recent update sent some systems into an eternal rebooting cycle. Sony is
telling their laptop users not to update. And on and on it goes.
Initial releases of operating systems and something all new like Edge
have always been buggy for everyone.
Look at iOS 8. Its initial release was an absolute disaster. But Apple
had set the date and had to put it out with the new iPhones. And that is
more or less the case with every developer. Nothing will ever be
perfect, and certainly not optimal upon release. If they strove for that
unobtainable goal nothing would ever be released.
Edge is, overall, a leap for Microsoft. And it's really more like a beta
release at this point. It doesn't support extensions, not even
Microsoft's own SilverLight, some pages don't render correctly,
transferring favorites from other browsers is a hit or miss, and on and
on. The biggest rave reviewers ramble on about is its page load time.
And they're talking about benchmark improvements in speed that are
measured in milliseconds. And like politicians they can twist the
numbers and say Edge loads pages one third faster than chrome or
Firefox. But are you really going to notice a performance increase of
one tenth of one second, especially when your screen-reader has to do a
boatload of work just to get started on that page?
We'll get access over time. But be realistic. We are not and never will
be at the top of any developer's priority list other than that of
screen-reader developers. This has been the case since day one and
always will be. It's a simple and unavoidable dictate of doing business,
no matter what kind of business you're running. If you want to stay in
business you cater to the concerns and desires of your main customer
base. Period. And we have three other browsers to choose from. So we
lose nothing.
Regards,
Tom
On 8/12/2015 2:42 PM, tchild via Talk wrote:
Hi,
I’m a bit dismayed and also wondering about the “back steps” accessibility has
seemed to take. Where are all the organizations, and people we as blind and
dissabled people have put our “faith” in to make sure that we can at least
access some of the stuff via networks. In this day and age for Microsoft not
only to roll out a new version of windows that is less accessible than previous
versions, but an all new browser that is totally in-accessible with a screen
reader. We hear the same old song and dance everytime we have to settle for
less than our sighted peers. Maybe it’s time blind and Vi quit “blindly”
following the Acb’s and the NFB’s and band together for one cause. We’ve kinda
been like the north against the south, Democrats against Republicans. I’m
afraid that untill we are all or “one mind” we will continue to have to settle
for being “second class” citizens...
Just saying. Tony
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