RE: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:32:26 -0400
My sentiments exactly.
Nice to see someone on here who understands the fundamental technologies, btw.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Varun Khosla
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 3:27 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome
DOM of Chrome and Firefox is based On single technology called Gecko
developed by Mozilla. This means that Chrome should have started
working with Jaws much earlier and such delay simply signifies plane
laziness.
The gecko technology is the only reason why The same scripts being
used in both browsers.
5/29/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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