Re: A question about JAWS and the Opera web browser.

  • From: "Mark Driesenga" <truthobjective@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:42:54 -0400

Thanks. It's funny b/c in the past, it supposedly worked, but yet, it doesn't at present. Mark


----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: A question about JAWS and the Opera web browser.


I'm afraid Opera doesn't work with screen readers at the moment. They're hoping to change that with a future version. See the following blog post by their Chief Standards Officer for a discussion:

http://my.opera.com/chaals/blog/speaking-out?cid=2506923

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Mark Driesenga wrote:
Just was wondering if anyone's been successful using Opera 9.02 with JAWS 8. I can't seem to get it to work, and it'd be awesome if I could use it. Mark


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