RE: Jaws 8 and DOM

  • From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:05:12 +0100

W3C defines DOM as "a platform- and language-neutral interface that will
allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content,
structure and style of documents."

Basic introduction from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

Documentation for the HTML DOM from W3C:

http://www.w3.org/DOM/

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:44 -0400, Robert S. Batchelor wrote:
>  Sorry changed the subject line for this thread
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Joseph Lee
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:09 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> Hi Devona,
> DOM stands for Document Object Model.  (Ted or Rick Harmon might tell you
> more about it).
> Cheers,
> Joseph
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Devona Abel" <djasister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:59:12 -0500
> >Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> >What is dom?
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> >  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:37 PM
> >  Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> 
> >  The DOM some of you are complaining about really does appear to
> be just
> >  JAWS's interface to its own understanding of the document,
> filtered
> >  through the browser's DOM implementation and MSAA translation
> of that
> >  DOM, rather than the real HTML DOM.  The real HTML DOM
> potentially makes
> >  navigation by paragraph (or heading, or link, or whatever)
> trivial.
> 
> >  Clearly, if navigation by paragraph is broken that's a fixable 
> bug, not
> >  a sign that using a DOM is a "bad idea".  The P key is supposed 
> to work:
> 
> >  http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/JAWSkeystrokes.asp
> 
> >  I suspect it would help if you guys were less laconic when 
> sharing
> >  experiences.  Navigation by paragraph, we are told, works for 
> Rick, but
> >  not for Arnaud.  But this information by itself is of little 
> use without
> >  knowing at the minimum:
> 
> >  1.  What version of Windows each are using.
> 
> >  2.  What web browser and version each are using.
> 
> >  3.  A URL for a webpage where navigation by paragraph does or 
> does not
> >  work.  (Not everything that looks like a paragraph on a webpage 
> actually
> >  is a paragraph.)
> 
> >  Certainly, when reporting bugs to Freedom Scientific technical 
> support,
> >  the more detail you provide the better.
> 
> >  For those of you frustrated by this process, remember that 
> Freedom
> >  Scientific are not the only ones who can help you here.  Web
> >  accessibility depends on interactions between multiple 
> technology
> >  layers.  Not all glitches will be Freedom Scientific's fault: 
> many will
> >  be the fault of particular webpage developers, Microsoft's 
> accessibility
> >  framework, or browser developers (Microsoft and Mozilla).  
> Microsoft has
> >  the microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup for 
> reporting
> >  Internet Explorer problems.  Mozilla go one better and offer a 
> public bug
> >  tracker which you search entries, report new bugs, lodge 
> feature
> >  requests, and follow up on progress; see:
> 
> >  http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/bugs
> 
> >  The intersecting layers involved in web accessibility pose a 
> problem,
> >  but also offer multiple avenues by which to approach a given 
> problem.  If
> >  navigation by paragraph does not work with JAWS, by all means 
> report
> >  your problem to Freedom Scientific, especially if it should 
> work
> >  according to the JAWS documentation.  But I'd strongly 
> encourage you to
> >  also try seeing if Firefox itself or a Firefox extension such 
> as
> >  Paragrasp, Fire Vox, or the Firefox Accessibility Toolbar will 
> give you
> >  the functionality you require:
> 
> >  https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2266/
> 
> >  http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/
> 
> >  http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/
> 
> >  If such extensions don't offer what you need (as is probably 
> the case
> >  with Fire Vox and the toolbar), you can also ask their 
> developers if
> >  they could enhance them with that functionality.
> 
> >  Finally, note that if your main screen reader does not offer 
> the web
> >  experience you wish, you could try installing NVDA or another 
> free,
> >  lightweight screen reader along side it.  NVDA offers 
> navigation by
> >  paragraph with the P key.
> 
> >  --
> >  Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> 
> >  On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:48 -0400, Rick Harmon wrote:
> >> I've had a couple of different things fixed by submitting the 
> problem
> >> to FS.  So I disagree with you there.  If no one turned anything 
> to FS
> >> for fixes then Jaws would be much worse than you think it is 
> now.
> 
> >> Rick
> 
> 
> >> =======
> 
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> 
> 
> >>         ----- Original Message -----
> >>         From: Agent86b
> >>         To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>         Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:16 PM
> >>         Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> 
> >>         Even if you submit complaints to FS it has been my 
> experience
> >>         nothing changes.
> >>         Max.
> 
> >>         on 01:50 25/03/2007, Rick Harmon said:
> >>> Hi,
> 
> >>> Have you made any of your problems known to FS?  Complaining
> >>> here won't make
> >>> JAWS work any better.  Everyone that has issues with JAWS
> >>> needs to submit
> >>> their complaints to them.  Otherwise your wasteing your
> >>> time.
> 
> >>> Rick
> 
> 
> >>> =======
> 
> >>> Visit my webpage and podcast feed at www.blind-geek-zone.net
> 
> 
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:40 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> 
> >>> I agree.  I have not used JAWS 8 in some time, because I
> >>> honestly feel it is
> >>> the worse release ever put out by Freedom Scientific.  It has
> >>> many bugs;
> >>> therefore, I have resorted to using JAWS 7.1 until FS
> >>> repairs the many
> >>> things that are wrong with the 8 version.
> 
> >>> Alicia
> 
> >>> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the
> >>> attitude of
> >>>>seeing people towards them."
> >>>>- Helen Keller, 1925
> 
> 
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "marcatony" <marcatony@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:53 AM
> >>> Subject: Jaws 8 a disapointment
> 
> 
> >>>>   I am very disapointed in Jaws 8.  There are so many
> >>> sites that I can not
> >>>> get it to read.  Between telling me there are non-existant
> >>> attachments to
> >>>> telling me that buttons are inactive.  I have two versions
> >>> of Jaws close
> >>>> at
> >>>> hand since Jaws 7 seems to be able to read more things.
> 
> >>>> Marsha Anderson
> 
> 
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