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Albert Ruel <[log in to unmask]>
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For reading articles on the web I much prefer Firefox, because it has an add-on called Reader. When encountering an article, Alt Control R reduces the clutter on the page and provides only the article, then Alt Control R will close the Reader and return the user to your regular webpage.

Thx, Albert

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On Dec 7, 2017, at 8:21 AM, Steve Hoad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi:  I've had reason to switch between Internet Explorer 11, Firefox
and Edge recently and got curious.  Here's what I determined for my
own use:
IE is done. No updates, slow performance and inaccurate display of web pages.
FireFox: nice performance, good display of web pages and generally
very responsive.
Edge: just not there yet regarding accessibility. Seems to load
quickly but it doesn't render pages accessibly enough to judge much
else.
I'm currently running Firefox with NVDA. I tried Firefox newest update
and am holding off on it;
other than that Windows 10 and NVDA are current versions.
I did find the refresh problem more common with IE, it occasionally
happens with Firefox; it is often when my internet connection is a bit
slow.
Steve Hoad

> On 12/7/17, Dan Tevelde <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hárry, you might consider NVDA.  It is free, and sometimes browsers like
> chrome work better with NVDA then JAWS.  I do accessibility testing and my
> company's standard testing environment for Windows is NVDA and Chrome.
> 
> You didn't say what type of site you were trying to use, but that could also
> make a difference.  Some sites which have a lot of social media options,
> news articles, blogs, and multimedia will refresh from time to time.  This
> is a trend we won't be able to stop so we will need to get used to it.
> Right now there is a lot of discussion about replacing a virtual viewer with
> some other option which loads part of the page at a time so screenreaders
> can cope with refreshing browsers.  I have read several technical articles
> about this, and it's not a matter of if but when this will hahappen.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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