I use both the Windows platform and the Mac. I am, however, mostly a Windows user. In recent times, say over the past year or so, using JAWS and Window-Eyes with Internet Explorer, I have found the Amazon UK site almost unusable. Quite recently I decided to give Fire Fox a go and boy what a difference. It is like comparing day with night. If I need to visit Amazon now it is once again a pleasure. All too often it is easy to blame the wrong party for a deterioration in accessibility.
In the case of Windows, Microsoft have a lot to answer for. The Narrator screen reader has improved, but it is still way short of being what it should be. Microsoft's Edge may well be 100 per cent HTML5 compatible, but what about all those sites that are not, and how accessible will they be using Edge. We will still need a screen reader that digs deep to make those sites usable for assistive technology users. When I use Safari to brows the Amazon site, I have always found the DOM mode to give the best results. All too often those who build a web page, and those who build the browser feel the need to make change for the sake of change rather than any improvement in performance. Even sighted people find it all very frustrating, as quite often such useless changes break what was working perfectly well. Martin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
