[nfbcs] NVDA and IE find

Trevor Saunders trev.saunders at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 20:18:05 UTC 2010


Hi,

I'm not sure about IE8 though I believe it may be a  little better, but IE is fairly well known to be terribly insecure.

Trev

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:11:46PM -0700, Gabe Vega wrote:
> Can you explain why I should not use I.E. 8 for my browsing? I am sitting here wondering if this is a fashion statement or if there is any real substance to it.
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> On Jul 11, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm not sure about IE, but find works fine in firefox.  If you don't
> > have a very good reason to use IE I'd use firefox, or any other
> > accessible browser that isn't IE if it is an option.
> > 
> > Trev
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 03:56:10PM -0400, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> >> Good afternoon Nancy,
> >> 
> >> I have only used System Access once.  Can you please provide some reasons that you believe it to be better than NVDA?  I'd like to know what I'm missing.
> >> 
> >> I definitely find NVDA to be far superior than JAWS in Firefox
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
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> >> On 2010-07-11, at 3:52 PM, Nancy Coffman wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I have been known to use www.satogo.com for a free scren reader.  It is certainly better than NVDA and if she likes it, it is one of the least expensive screen readers on the market.
> >>> 
> >>> Nancy Coffman
> >>> 
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> >>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:41 AM
> >>> Subject: [nfbcs] NVDA and IE find
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> I like to use control-f in IE to find what I'm looking for on complicated
> >>>> websites.  I am having trouble using this find with NVDA.  I open the find
> >>>> dialog, put in what I want to find, tab to next, hit enter.  It finds the
> >>>> first thing, but if I hit f3 to refind, it doesn't do it.
> >>>> Anyone know how to make find work with NVDA?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Also, my sister-in-law is trying to use NVDA with Windows 7, with less
> >>>> success than I am having with XP.  Are there other low-cost screen readers
> >>>> she could try with Windows 7, or is there some trick to make NVDA work
> >>>> better?  She is a total novice with computers, which complicates things.
> >>>> TIA.
> >>>> Tracy
> >>>> r-in-law is try
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
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