[access-uk] Re: Internet Explorer 7
- From: "Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:38:52 +0100
Well now jaws 7.x works with firefox I do occasionally use it, however, jaws
still doesn't work fully with it like it does with IE, so I can't/don't want to
use it and totally rely on it because it still does not work with everthing and
there definitely are sites that it doesn't work with as well as IE. I posted
question on jaws UK list a few weeks or maybe days ago asking if tIE 7 has been
tested with jaws 7.1 yet. I sure don't want to download it yet because it's
still in it's beta stages, but I know that we'll be pretty much forced to use
it by microsoft when full version is released as it will be a required "hightly
chritical" windows update. Sure, we don't have to accept the update and I
understand that there will be an unistalation tool that will let the system
revert back to IE 6. Still, I'd be interested to know if there's any official
word from Freedom Scientific about use of IE 7 and jaws (probablly not because
it's still beta) or if anyone using jaws has been brave enough to try beta. I
doubt that anything drasticly change in the way that jaws would have problems
interpreting HTML so I doubt that there'd be any problems.
I also read in this weeks edition of WXP news that the edditor of the e-zine
has problem with her use of IE 7 beta and that certain website simply don't
work and give 404 errors for no reason at all, yet they work fine on firefox,
so it sure can't be a firewall/dns issue.
Vanja
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----- Original Message -----
From: Emma Wright
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Internet Explorer 7
If like me, you like to be able to properly enlarge text in your browser,
over ride the font style and background colours then Firefox is far better than
IE. Firefox also works much better with the screenreader that I use from time
to time (ZoomText) than IE does and seems more stable. I'd never go back to
IE, although I do have to have Firefox display a page in IE format from time to
time as Firefox is not supported by all sites. It's interesting to come across
someone who doesn't prefer Firefox though, as virtually everyone I've spoken to
who's tried it likes it!
Emma Wright
On 10/08/06, Ray's Home <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve, I wouldn't say Firefox is quite as revolutionary as many claim, but
the Windows update problem is handled well by Firefox as it automatically
excludes Windows Update from the pages it will load. In other words, going
to Windows Update does bring up IE6 even though Firefox may be set as the
default browser.
You are right, Firefox does display many .differently, but for the most part
I've had no problems accessing most web sites. I think it is certainly
true
though that the vast majority of web page authors optimise for IE which most
people do use.
Firefox does have a slight speed advantage too, and I find the ability to
have multiple home pages is valuable to me. I'm also keen on anything that
improves on Internet Explorer's level of security.
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Steve Nutt
Hi Ray,
I don't see what all the fuss is about Firefox personally. OK Tabbed
browsing is there, but while it is better for security, you can't use it
with Windows Update, and many sites that rely on Active X, so I personally
will stick to IE. Also, I find that some links are simply missing in FF
when I go to web sites, that are better displayed in IE. Some HTML is not
rendered nearly so well in FF in my view. So what is all the fuss about?
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ray's Home
Sent: 10 August 2006 10:31
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Internet Explorer 7
Sam, I'd err on the side of caution. In the recent past I think people
have
found that if they cannot get on with IE7 reverting back to 6 has been quite
hard. Maybe the unistall problem has been solved by now, but I don't know.
Why not give Firefox a try? If you have V7 of JAWS or you are using
Window-Eyes 5.5 you will have no problems with it, and the keyboard
navigation is very near identical. Don't know how HAL copes with Firefox,
but I've a feeling that v7 works quite well with Firefox. Firefox is said
to
be worth it for security reasons alone, but it has always had tabbed
browsing which, of course, IE7 will have.
From Ray
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mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Howie, Sam
Hi All
Quick question I was just wondering if anyone has been brave enough to
install the beta version Internet Explorer 7 if so what do you think of it.
Cheers
Sam
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