First, please confirm which versions of Firefox and Orca I am using.
Since you know so much about my environment, I look forward to your
abilities in this regard.
Second, please justify why the fact that a given choice works for you is
a good reason why that choice must be for everyone. I at no point said
that you must use Windows or criticized your choices, so perhaps it
would be wise not to criticize mine, or to criticize me when I claim
that Windows suits my needs better.
If you're happy with what you have now, fine. Be happy with it. But do
step aside when others aren't and try to make things better. We're not
trying to put *you* down or call *you* out, after all.
On 01/07/2013 02:14 PM, Kyle wrote:
I do lots of things with my computer using Linux. Granted, my primary
distro is Arch Linux rather than Ubuntu, so I get all the latest stuff
as soon as it's released, but I don't use Windows, except the very
rare times when I need to print something, because I have yet to
purchase a good printer, at which times I use a left-over XP install
on a 10-year-old box. I browse many websites on my Linux box using
Orca and Firefox, and I use no other browser, not even
Chrome+ChromeVox. I have nothing against trying different things, but
I tend to stick with what works, and Firefox+Orca works quite well
here. I have yet to find a website that is impossible to navigate,
with the exception of Flash content, which is more miss than hit on
any browser in any OS. Yes, the times I still have to use Windows for
printing, I find NVDA to be quite usable, but if making Firefox+Orca
more usable for others means converting to a clunky virtual buffer
system that doesn't handle dynamic content well, and cludgy
work-arounds like lists of links, then I'll hold off on the downgr ...
I mean upgrade, thank you very much.
Yes, Firefox and the way Orca works with it could be improved, and
this is happening. But saying that you'd rather use Windows for web
browsing because you haven't even tried the latest versions of either
Orca or Firefox is utterly ridiculous. So before spouting and spitting
about how accessibility needs to improve, first start by trying the
latest versions of things, so that you can file more informed bug
reports based on the newest, dare I say shiniest, technology.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
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