David, You have upgraded your XP to the latest SP3 and you have upgraded FireFox to the latest version 3 it sounds like. The only thing you have not upgraded is JAWS. If you install JAWS 10, you will find it working much better in the latest FireFox. Not just reading the text in the edits, but other areas as well. I also suggest you try IE 7 with JAWS 10 installed. You will even find that your JAWS 8 version works better in IE once JAWS 10 has been installed since the shared components are updated.
This is one of the benefits of JAWS, you can install newer versions and run them as a demo in order to test and see the improvements and differences. Hopefully you'll see the benefit and purchase the upgrades. Regards, Eric Damery Freedom Scientific -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 5:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Problems reading Edit Boxes in Firefox Dear list, Due to the security alert re Internet Explorer I have had to, for the time being, switch to Firefox. I have always found this browser clunky but I can get by for the time being. One particularly annoying problem persists however and that is that on my setup Jaws seems incapable of reading text in Firefox edit boxes whilst in forms mode. I am using Jaws 8 on an XP Pro machine SP3 with the latest version of Firefox. The symptoms are that Jaws will provide a typing echo whilst typing in the edit box but will not be able to read what you have actually typed in unless you switch back out of forms mode. This makes it impossible to edit anything you have entered in an edit box, perhaps after you have made a typing mistake. I am prone to making typing errors! I have tried switching the screen echo settings between highlighted, all and none without success. This seems to be a problem between Jaws 8 and Firefox as I have never had this problem with Internet Explorer. . Does anybody know of a fix for this ? Thanks David Griffith Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [email protected] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [email protected] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [email protected] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [email protected] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [email protected] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [email protected]
