Hi,
I thought it would be worth trying the following info in an attempt to
have WE read the screen info in both Tbird and Firefox. Although the
steps were followed as shown below for Jaws,in my case, it had no affect
on the mouse keys and FF and TB.
It appears WE uses a different method of gaining the required info and
as a result, making the changes ineffective. For all those programmers
amongst us, is there anything which could be altered in the config file
to improve access to the screen?
For the time being, I'll leave the alterations and will only chage them
back if problems develop. Booting the system made no difference either.
Neville.
TB and FF info for Jaws users:
On Windows Vista and Windows 7, Firefox and Thunderbird both use
Direct2D rendering by default. This prevents the JAWS cursor from
detecting information. Fortunately it is easy to disable this
rendering. You need to do it once for each version of Firefox and
Thunderbird you use on your system. To do this you need to set two
configuration variables to true: gfx.direct2d.disabled, and
layers.acceleration.disabled.
Open the Configuration Editor. In Firefox, enter
about:config
in the address bar. In Thunderbird, go to the Tools menu and navigate
to Options, Advanced, General, then Config Editor.
Once in the Configuration editor, press TAB until you are in the list of
options.
Pressing UP or DOWN ARROW will move you between options or typing the
first few letters of an option's name will move you to a specific option
in the list. In this case, type gfx and press DOWN ARROW to
gfx.direct2d.disabled.
Assuming the option is set to false, press the APPLICATIONS KEY to open
the context menu and choose Toggle. This will change the option to true.
Go through the same process for layers.acceleration.disabled.
Close the Configuration Editor and restart Firefox or Thunderbird. The
JAWS cursor should now show content.
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