[nfbcs] Phrasing Things RE: JAWS and Google Chrome Browser

[Peter Donahue]

Good morning everyone,

    We're using Google Chrome with JAWS 13 and are not having any problems 
with it. The menu takes some getting used to but beyond that it's really not 
that much different than IE or Firefox. Sometimes a thorough knowledge of 
the application's keyboard shortcuts and your screen reader's navigation 
commands are all that is needed to make some applications quite usable.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Denise M Robinson" <deniserob at gmail.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Phrasing Things RE: JAWS and Google Chrome Browser


You can actually do a lot in Chrome with Jaws and cursor movement...yes
chrome vox makes it come alive and highly suggest it, but know that you can
do a lot without it too. Try it so you can compare before downloading
chrome vox--or download and turn it off to compare---it is always good to
have lots of information about what you use

Denise

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Nicole Torcolini
<ntorcolini at wavecable.com>wrote:

> I don't know if it was meant to come across that way, but, to me, that was
> kind of rude.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:55 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] JAWS and Google Chrome Browser
>
> You had no business even trying to use google chrome without chromevox.
> Two years ago google held a webinar and explained to all present that the
> chromevox add-on was where all screen reader support for screen readers
> will
> be placed for google chrome.  Let's get clear about something else here
> too.
> The most support chromevox has in it and the most mature support is for
> versions of jaws.  I use nvda at home and will never use jaws at home and 
> I
> don't have any problem running google chrome with chromevox on windows7 at
> home.
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Aaron Cannon wrote:
>
> > My experience with using Crome with Jaws 13 (just recently upgraded to
> > 14, so can't comment if things have improved) was so-so to poor.  I
> > found it less accessible than Firefox.  The browser GUI, such as the
> > menus and option screens are much more difficult to navigate.  And as
> > for using it to access the web, I found that it often had a difficult
> > time communicating changes on the page to Jaws.  For example, when
> > AJAX updated a portion of the page, or when a section of content was
> > dynamically loaded, Jaws wouldn't read the new or updated content.
> > This same problem happens once in a while in Firefox as well, but
> > refreshing the virtual buffer usually solves it.  Sadly, this is not
> > the case in Crome, and I haven't been able to find any workarounds.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?
>
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