[NFBCS] Accessibee doesn't work well with Firefox

[Aaron Cannon]

My life has been a lot more pleasant since I installed the AccessiBeGone
extension. Not sure if they have it for FireFox though. It basically blocks
all the major accessibility overlays.

Aaron

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 09:34 Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I quite agree. Automation doesn’t always fix everything--almost never, in
> fact. Other measures are needed to supplement what automation provides.
>
> I would be glad to bug accessiBe about this if you could supply some
> specific examples privately. Reach out to me personally at
> chong.curtis at gmail.com.
>
> People like us who live in the real world need to communicate these sorts
> of problems to the companies who too often are perceived as having
> automated solutions which, all by themselves, will solve our accessibility
> issues.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2024, at 7:55 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> More and more I run into websites with “accessibility” provided by
> Accessibee.  They tell me to turn on screen reader mode by hitting alt-1.
>
> I am finding that those sites don’t work well with Firefox, regardless of
> whether screen reader mode is on or not.  Yesterday, I was trying to add
> something to my cart, and couldn’t do it in or out of screen reader mode.
> Today, I was filling out a form and it skipped required fields in screen
> reader mode.
>
> Switching to Chrome seems to solve the problem; at least it did for both
> the websites that didn’t work with Firefox.
>
> I know this is crazy talk, but, if a website is supposed to be accessible,
> it ought to be accessible with all 3 major browsers.  Imagine that.
>
> Tracy
>
>
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