[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS with Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Or Firefox

  • From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:21:30 +1100

Last time I looked, couple weeks back on what I think was about firefox 
version 24 or something like it, Jaws couldn't read a single thing on the 
firefox screen with jaws cursor!
So routing jaws to pc to try and click on anything, seemed to be a totally 
lost cause to me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 3:31 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS with Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Or 
Firefox


> Chrome is the worst browser, or better said it may be good, but the screen
> readers are bad.
>
> I have just downgraded from IE11 to IE10 under Win 7 64bit because with 
> IE11
> when I needed to write large pieces of text in a textarea, after writing
> more lines, say 20 or 30, Jaws became very sluggish.
> Also in those textareas Jaws didn't read well as "blank" the empty lines,
> but use to read the previous or next line, so I couldn't find where were 
> the
> blank lines to write there.
> Plus that for many times it was hard to use the web page using the Jaws
> cursor, because sometimes the cursor couldn't see the entire screen or 
> route
> jaws to pc cursor command didn't put the Jaws cursor right at the PC 
> cursor
> location.
>
> IE10 is a little better, but not great.
>
> Firefox also has problems when trying to read the screen using the Jaws
> cursor, similar to the ones in IE11, so routing Jaws to PC doesn't work 
> very
> well, but sometimes it works OK.
>
> I told you what I found and I am curious what others say, because 
> regarding
> IE11, I am not sure if Jaws was my problem or that Jaws didn't like the
> video card and its driver... so I can't make a very good recommendation, 
> but
> anyway, in any case, IE10 is better than IE11.
>
> -Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chad Foster" <chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Scripting" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:59 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] JAWS with Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Or
> Firefox
>
>
>> All, I am working on a scripting project and need to find the  best
>> browser to use. The customer preferences are: (1) Google Chrome; (2)
>> Internet Explorer 11; and, (3) Firefox.
>>
>> Does anyone have success using JAWS with Google Chrome? If so, what
>> version?
>>
>> What about IE11? Firefox?
>>
>> Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Chad
>> What is the best version of Firefox to use with JAWS?
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