Chrome has come a long way. You can now use it with or without 
ChromeVox. Firefox is my primary browser, but when it's not quite 
working for me, I try Chrome and Internet Explorer, usually Chrome 
first, not because I have anything against Microsoft, but because Chrome 
gets the job done.

About ChromVox, it's come a long way too. The last time I checked, which 
was over the summer, the documentation was still out of date, so the 
ChromeVox accelerator keys are shift+alt. You can hit insert twice 
quickly to toggle sticky mode, so you don't have to use shift+alt all 
the time. Once I got used to ChromeVox I really liked it.

The only thing I find less elegant is that there's an extra step when 
you're using ChromeVox to jump to the next or previous element: Instead 
of just pressing H or shift+H for the next or previous heading, you need 
to press shift+alt+n (for next) or shift+alt+P (for previous) followed 
by H. You get used to it, but it's two keystrokes instead of one.

I sometimes encounter buttons that ChromVox calls images, but Jaws and 
NVDA call something else, so ChromeVox isn't always reading the labels 
or alt text. But this doesn't happen too often.

I think Chrome and ChromeVox are good things for us to learn to use so 
we can access the web on computers that don't have screen readers.


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