[nfbcs] Mozilla Firefox not accessible with JAWS 13.0?

[Humberto Avila]

I'm using the very latest. Not sure what the version number is.  I think it
is version 10.0.2.



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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Mozilla Firefox not accessible with JAWS 13.0?

What version of Firefox are you using?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>; <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 6:18 PM
Subject: [nfbcs] Mozilla Firefox not accessible with JAWS 13.0?


> Hello all:
>
> I recently found out that the latest version of JAWS, JAWS 13, does not 
> work
> with Mozilla Firefox well. JAWS 12 does, and even the latest version of
> NVDA, but I don't know why JAWS 13 does not. when I use firefox with jfw 
> 12
> and Windows 7, I can use the Virtual PC cursor perfectly. when I use NVDA,
> the web page is read with the virtual cursor (which they call Document
> cursor).
>
> I have tried doing everything that a computer geek can possibly do to come
> up with solutions. I have changed JAWS setting to not use the Virtual PC
> cursor, restarted JAWS, changed settings back again, and Nada happens. 
> when
> I use JAWS 13 on my windows xp computer I just get all web pages in that
> browser presented to me like if they were a standard dialog box, using the
> PC cursor instead of the Virtual PC cursor. For example, if I go into
> Google, I can hear that the Google Search edit box is present, I down and 
> up
> arrow and I hear nothing, but when I press the tab and shift+tab keys I 
> hear
> the options such as links and buttons and forms and stuff. the strange
> thing, when I hit the NumPad + key to get me out of forms mode and go into
> Virtual PC cursor mode, all I hear is, "PC cursor."
>
> If JAWS 12 does work well with firefox, there should be absolutely no 
> reason
> why JAWS 13 wouldn't work with firefox also. what should I do? Should I
> report this to Freedom Scientific? Would this be because of my computer
> setup E.G. windows xp service pack 3, Latest version of Mozilla firefox,
> ETC? or, did Freedom Scientific drop support for Firefox in this new 
> release
> of JAWS altogether? Or, is Mozilla being just careless about accessibility
> for screen readers?
>
> Any suggestions and answers are appreciated.
> By the way, Yes I have an XP machine with JAWS 13 and also a Windows 7
> laptop running JAWS 12. both computers have the very latest version of the
> firefox browser installed.
> Cheers,
> Humberto
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