RE: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome

  • From: Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 21:03:13 +0000

Look.  Ty, I'm sorry.  He wasn't specific, and I didn't want to deal with that 
kind of testing in the middle of finals week at school, and now I've gotten 
caught up in various other things.  Will you ever forgive me?  Jees.

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 5:01 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome

>Well a Ffrend of mine didn't get it working for him.
You seem to have lots of friends who can't get x or y working, or who got 
hacked by z and blown up by n. This is not a personal attack, but before you 
state something as fact, it would help you and everyone else if -you- 
specifically tried it, rather than accepting it as fact from someone else and 
then telling the list. That way, we could ask you personally what didn't work 
and make suggestions for those who have the same issue, etc etc.

On 5/29/2011 2:50 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:

Well a Ffrend of mine didn't get it working for him.



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 [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 4:18 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome





Uhm, it does?



Take care,

Sina

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 [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katherine Mossno 
clue.



Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:04 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome



Now since you guys say that the same scripts used for firefox are those used in 
Chrome, then why doesn't the latest 4.0 version of firefox work with JAWS?



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 [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Moisei
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 1:03 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome



That's right. You need a development build to test the latest accessibility 
features. See here:

http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel



----- Original Message -----

From: Don Marang<mailto:donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>

To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 4:45 PM

Subject: Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome



JAWS 12 certainly does not work with the stable 11.0.696.71 version of Chrome.  
Is there a specific dev version or nightly build I should try?  Where can I get 
it?

Don Marang
Vinux Software Development Coordinator - 
vinuxproject.org<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real 
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on 
things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen

On 5/29/2011 9:37 AM, Stefan Moisei wrote:

Yeah, I noticed the same thing.
However, at least for me, not all things work correctly yet.
First, some larger edit boxes don't work. You can type in them, but jaws 
doesn't read anything. I think this was documented in the chrome accessibility 
wiki article.
Second, jaws doesn't read flash objects at all.
Third, sometimes larger pages are not loaded into the virtual buffer and I have 
to load the same address again. Refresh doesn't work, I have to press alt+d and 
enter.
Finally, some pages are not updated in the virtual buffer. After I click a 
link, the page doesn't change for jaws, even though the title does.
Those happen with google chrome 13.0.772.0 dev-m and jaws 12.0.1158.
Despite these problems, I'm also very excited about chrome's accessibility 
improvement and hope it will soon be fully accessible.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" 
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 8:08 AM
Subject: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome

Sorry for the cross posting, but as this fundamentally affects, or at least 
can, how most of us interact with the web, I thought I'd
share.

I fired up the latest Google chrome, as I do from time to time, to play around 
with it, and I noticed that jaws 12 started reading
me the page. First I thought, oh cute, the virtual cursor recognition finally 
got smart enough to recognize the chrome window as
non-static text, but then I said, hmm, that's reading awfully well, so I hit h 
and navigated by header, and I went to different
URLs, and they all read correctly.

Further investigation shows that jaws is aliasing chrome to Firefox. The 
Firefox scripts, in fact, are what is loaded if you do an
insert+q.

So, apparently no longer is NVDA the only windows screen reader that supports 
chrome.

Good to see, I thought.

Btw, I checked, and sure enough, the line:

chrome=Firefox

appears in the default confignames.ini shipping with jaws.

Would have been nice to know ... just a thought.

Take care,
Sina


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Ty

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