Re: "Hotmail Live" & JFW accessibility
- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:56:08 -0700
Hi,
I have no experience with the new hotmail, but I just got word from a client of
mine that he's having the same trouble. If anybody has the answer to this one,
please post it publicly. Also, if anybody's having better luck accessing the
new hotmail using Firefox, post that publicly, too.
Thanks a lot.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Clendinen
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:35 AM
Subject: "Hotmail Live" & JFW accessibility
Hello fellow listers,
Are any of you having success with using JFW with the new Hotmail Live?
I tried to use it with JFW 7.0, and found it to be almost completely
inaccessible. When I attempted to compose a message, JFW was unable to read the
text I had typed into the message body while I was in forms mode. I was able to
rout JAWS to PC cursor to read the text, but that's a hassle.
I tried to include a file attachment, but couldn't find a link or button
anywhere, so I finally gave up.
I even tried switching to what they call the "classic Hotmail Live," hoping
it would be more accessible, but it was no better. Finally, I went to the
options page and switched back to the "MSN Hotmail" and that gave me back the
old familiar (and accessible) Hotmail. But about once each week, I am being
prompted after logging into my hotmail account, to either log into the new
Hotmail Live inbox, or click a button that says "Remind me later." I fear that
at some point, Microsoft is going to force everyone using the old version of
hotmail to switch to this inaccessible "Hotmail Live" version.
If any of you have figured out how to get this new version to work with JAWS,
could you please tell me how you did it? Thanks!
Alan
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