And, for the record, Microsoft Edge, though it is not completely there yet as far as blind access goes, also has a reading feature that works very similarly to that of Firefox.
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Ted Chittenden
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From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Albert Ruel
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Which Browser to Use?
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
>
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