Re: Jaws 12 works with Google Chrome
- From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:14:24 -0700
umm....Chrome's based on *webkit* (as is Safari).
On 6/6/11, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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