Thanks for the link.
Yes, they sure are aware of the screen reader issues - and have been so ever since they started the whole 57+ cycle. What they don't tell in the article you linked, is why they did not just fix it right away, when they were to introduce version 58. Sounds somehow like the Microsoft thing, where they took a pretty long time to have anything for a fix, in the Edge browser issue. Being aware of a thing, does not automate you will ever have a fix of it. Well, let us keep positive. They are aware of the issues, and hope to fix them. Now, what kind of issues is it they will fix? NVDA, and I don't know Jaws, have had certain issues with modern versions of Firefox. But they have still been able to read SOMETHING off the screen. WinEyes users, on the other hand, have been able to read absolutely nothing from the screen produced by version 57+. Even when we seemed to have found a workaround, it took them less than a week to break even that one, with a new "update". So when comes to them fixing things in a way that WinEyes users again can go back to the latest ordinary version of Firefox, I would not keep my breath - really. Chances are high, the issues they are going to fix, will be the ones experienced by NVDA and Jaws. For WinEyes users, currently you have to use the ESR version of the Firefox - which most currently is at version 52.6. It updated here yesterday, and still runs nicely with the screen reader. Let's just hope, they don't break anything there, before they have fixed everything in the main version. Again, I do intend no negativity here, but wanted to keep things in perspective. On 1/25/2018 4:23 AM, Debby Franson via Talk wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > My husband sent me this link. I know we have all had trouble with > Firefox since their major change, and I remember someone feeling > forgotten about by Mozilla due to being a screen reader user. Mozilla > hasn't forgotten about us. They are aware of the problems screen > reader users have. Here is the link. > > https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/22/firefox-58-0/ > > Debby > > _______________________________________________ > 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/trailerdavid%40hotmail.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
