it may not support msaa, but earlier versions of it worked just fine and
if you work with it and do not use the java version, it will work at
least to some degree. I'm sick of hearing msaa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Verhoeven" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Opera browser and screen readers
Hi David,
The problem that screen readers do not work very well with Opera is,
that
it does not support MSAA.
Latest releases of screen reader are highly designed to work with
Internet
Explorer
Regards Peter Verhoeven
Internet : http://www.magnifiers.org (the Screen Magnifiers Homepage)
At 15:58 25-04-2002 -0400, David Poehlman wrote:
>on the opera web site, there is a link to some old scripts that may
>help. I had an ini file for a version that was a ways back that
>probably help now but basically, for you to stand a chance, you need to
>configure it to use the same window for everything and not to open new
>windows and there is an accessibility mode in it somewhere but I don't
>remember where. It used to work fairly well even as late as jfw 4.0 on
>windows millennium. I found that the scripts did not help here though
>and access was spotty but possible.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Rebman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:59 PM
>Subject: Opera browser and screen readers
>
>
>Does anybody have any information as to how to best make the Opera
>browser
>work with a screen reader? I just downloaded version 6.01 of the Opera
>browser and installed it, but am having a rather difficult time getting
>it
>to work with JFW 4.02. At the moment I can't even access the menu bar
>or
>the drop-down menus without having to resort to the Jaws cursor.
>
>If anybody has any information on things I might try as far as
>configuring
>the browser itself, or if there are any configuration files for JFW
>and/or
>Window-Eyes, I would really appreciate knowing about them.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim
>
>------------
>
>James A. Rebman
>
>Cognitive Levers Project
>Center for Life-Long Learning and Design
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Colorado, Boulder
>
>"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
>violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in
the
>opposite direction."
>
> - E. F. Schumacher
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