I made the modififcations and I am using windows 7 64 bit pro and Yes
they do work.
On 12/26/2015 7:27 PM, Neville via Talk wrote:
Hi Larry,
These modifications work in W7 32 bit but no idea if they make a
difference in W8 or W10 or even 64 bit.
What OS are you using?
As we are being pested to move to W10, it would be a real shame if
this technique did not make a difference under this OS.
A case of one step forward and two steps backward if it does not.
Neville.
On 26/12/2015 9:34 PM, Larry Higgins wrote:
Neville, thanks for your efforts. I really don't know why it should be
that some people have such good luck with such modifications, and
others, like me, never get anywhere. I still get nothing but a line
with the word "file," and the first line of the message, and a ding
below that. If anyone else can give me any ideas as to why this should
be, please let me, as well as the rest of us know.
All I can say is that if ISquared and all other screen reading
developers can find no way to deal with this new method of handling the
mouse pointer, we all better hope and even pray that this method doesn't
become too popular among commercial or open source application
developers, because if it does, there goes any possible use of a mouse
pointer for speech access. This issue simply has to be addressed and
dealt with, not just accepted by screen reader developers.
On 12/25/2015 6:16 PM, Neville via Talk wrote:
Hi Listers,
Using: W7 HP 32 bit, latest versions of WE, Firefox and Thunderbird
Use the three steps below to make both Firefox and Thunderbird
accessible with the mouse just like they used to be. I was able to
use WE to make the necessary changes in Thunderbird but needed
sighted assistance for Firefox. For some reason WE kept loosing
speech in the case of Firefox but maybe NVDA would work.
A similar method has been around for a while but never had any success
with it but these three steps really work. In short, I was amazed
with the change in mouse accessibility the alterations made.
Hopefully, someone can come up with a method to make Chrome mouse
accessible as well.
HTH
Neville.
This is the three steps needed to fix the mouse cursor problem.
The third step is the new one. You do have to arrow down many times
to find it. A lot do seem to sound the same, so be careful you get
the correct one to change.
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1. Open the Configuration Editor. In Firefox, enter
about:config
in the address bar. In Thunderbird, go to the Tools menu and navigate
to Options, Advanced, General, then Config Editor.
2. Once in the Configuration editor, press TAB until you are in the
list of options.
3. Pressing UP or DOWN ARROW will move you between options or typing
the first few letters of an option's name will move you to a specific
option in the
list.
the following are entries to search for:
gfx.direct2d.disabled
if the boolean value is set to false, press the enter key to toggle the
value to true.
layers.acceleration.disabled
if the boolean value is set to false, press the enter key to toggle the
value to true.
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled
if the boolean value is set to true, press the enter key to toggle the
value to false.
press control+w to close the configuration window.
restart Thunderbird/Firefox.
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