Thanks for all the hard work on the new WE8 release! I do believe
that the "guess what" posts have more than a few of us eagerly awaiting
the public beta like kids on Christmas morning.. It does sound like
there has been a lot of thought and effort put in to this release and
the features as demonstrated thus far seem like definite wants and needs
rather than useless glittery fluff. The work you guys put in to these
releases is very commendable.
I had a couple questions about browse mode that weren't covered in
the press release and wasn't sure if it were appropriate to ask or if
you could comment on them.
Firstly along with ARIA support can we also assume that WE will now
better work with and identify HTML 5 elements? Is it also possible that
WE will more correctly be able to guess font and colour of text on web
pages?
Secondly if it is now possible to move the mouse pointer to the
focused item in browse mode is it then possible that the mouse pointer
will work inside IE9 windows? Along with this, I'm assuming if one
routes the mouse pointer to a focused item on a web site and either
physically clicks or uses the emulated mouse click functions that WE
will actually perform a click on that item?
Thirdly I know I have reported some latency issues that happen with
WE when other programs hang and I need to fall back to NVDA. I realize
that hanging programs can drag software like WE down with them but is
there anything known on whether perhaps WE8 handles this any better than
7.5.4.1? Along with this, will the new browse mode perhaps eliminate
some of the instability experienced with IE and sudddenly getting the
sound of doom from WE crashing? I know I've submitted a few crash
reports on this, though whether this is an issue with this single system
or a global issue with others I cannot be sure.
Lastly, I also know you guys have worked hard on Thunderbird issues
and was wondering if you've been able to make any progress in solving
these problems many of us have reported with browse mode randomly
turning on while one is typing a message? I know I would like to retire
Notepad from the copy/paste pad it has served as for writing E-mails, as
I am doing now.
Thanks for any information. Overall with the pieces of information
release thus far on WE8 it sounds very exciting and offers a lot of
promising features and improvements, even if some of the suggested
issues I've noted here haven't been addressed which I'm sure that it is
likely some of them have.
Thanks again,
Cory
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Cory Martin
Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired Instructor
Website: http://www.nerdball.net/
Skype: dark_inversion
Twitter: nerdball_net
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