[nfbcs] Mozilla Firefox not accessible with JAWS 13.0?

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

I am not using the most recent version because it is not compatible with web 
visum. If previous versions were compatible with JAWS, and there is no major 
advantage to using the latest version, I would suggest using an older 
version.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com>
To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Mozilla Firefox not accessible with JAWS 13.0?


> I'm using the very latest. Not sure what the version number is.  I think 
> it
> is version 10.0.2.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 6:26 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> 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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