[NFBCS] Navigation Sounds for Mozilla Firefox

[Amanda Lacy]

Hey Curtis, thanks for posting this.

On 11/14/19, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Everyone:
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> This email discusses how you can get navigational sounds for the Mozilla
> Firefox browser in Windows. If you are not interested in this topic, feel
> free to delete this and move on.
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> Navigational sounds was an extension for Mozilla Firefox which played a
> sound for the Start and Complete Navigation events. It was easy to install,
> and no configuration was required. All a person had to do was to configure
> Windows to play the appropriate sounds for these events through the Windows
> Control Panel. In 2017, Firefox was updated to the Quantum version, and the
> Navigational Sounds extension no longer worked. This was a problem for me
> because Firefox took longer than other browsers to make a web page
> available
> to my screen reading program, and I needed to know when a web page was
> actually available for review. So, I spent some time trying to find a
> replacement for Navigational Sounds.
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> If you Google "Firefox navigational sounds", your first hit points you to
> the Noise extension for Firefox. I tried this extension and found that it
> did not generate any sounds for the Start and End Navigation events.
> Consequently, my advice is to avoid the Noise<smile>.
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> The Firefox add-on which actually worked for me is something called Extra
> Sounds. According to the developer:
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> "This add-on will add sounds to your Firefox. Currently it supports 5
> events: the start and complete of navigation, new download, the download is
> complete and error downloading."
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> This add-on took a bit of work to find. No matter what I tried, I could not
> find it with the search engines I traditionally use (i.e., www.google.com
> or
> www.startpage.com).
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> So, to save you some time, if you want to read about Extra Sounds, point
> your browser to
> https://jawhien.tiflohelp.ru/en/articles/other/extrasounds.php.
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> To install Extra Sounds, go to
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extra-sounds/.
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> After Extra Sounds has been installed, you may find that its default sounds
> are not loud enough. Fortunately, Extra Sounds can be configured to use
> whatever sounds you have available to you in Windows. However, JAWS users
> should know that as of this writing, Firefox might crash if you use JAWS to
> enter the configuration section of the add-on. I had to use NVDA to
> accomplish this task.
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> To configure Extra Sounds, follow these steps.
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> 1.	Start Firefox.
> 2.	Press CTRL+SHIFT+A to reach the Firefox Add-ons manager.
> 3.	Click or press Enter on the Extra Sounds link. This will bring up a
> new page which does not always show up properly with your screen reader. It
> might be necessary to press F5 to refresh the screen.
> 4.	If the screen is properly refreshed, you should be able to read
> information about Extra sounds such as the home page for the add-on and the
> number of reviews that have been written about it.
> 5.	Now, find the More Options button and activate it. A context menu
> should appear. Select the item which says Options. This should take you to
> the Extra Sounds Preferences page.
> 6.	At this point, you want to click or press Space on the Custom sounds
> tab.
> 7.	After you have assigned all of the sounds to the events you want, be
> sure to press the Save Preferences button.
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> I trust the geeks among us will find this information helpful.
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> Cordially,
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> Curtis Chong
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