Hi David I totally agree with your last comment. I have access to Supernova, Jaws, Window-Eyes, NVDA and Access2Go, so I guess somewhere there I should find the best option.
Kindest regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Proudly Providing Braille And Alternative Format Transcription Services, Plus I.T Help & Support To The Staff And Students Of the Visually Impaired & Children’s Learning Difficulties Department at Sunnyside Academy Manor Farm Way Colby Newham Middlesbrough Cleveland TS8 0RJ United Kingdom ============================== Contact Info: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 United Kingdom Geographic: 01133 280547 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Australasia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 24 Jun 2014, at 17:41, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: Forgot to mention Window-Eyes and NVDA In practice I have not encountered any web site so far that Jaws can handle that NVDA cannot handle as well. This is not to say that such web sites do not exist but I have not come across them. My experience using Window-Eyes is different though. With one exception I have found that both Jaws and NVDA outperform Window-Eyes on the web. Sometimes Window-Eyes just does not cope. For example I had to assist a person struggling on the Tesco site with her Window-Eyes and switching to NVDA caused her problem to disappear. Window-Eyes seems completely unable to cope with my Nat West Banking site and freezes, again closing Window-Eyes and switching to NVDA allowed normal access to the banking page, I did not even have to reload the page, NVDA picked up the elements immediately. I have learnt some work around to cope with some of the Window-Eyes problems. For example on the BBC iPlayer pages the play button is invisible to Window-Eyes but will become visible if you refresh the screen. However both NVDA and especially Jaws can pick up this button without any issue. The one exception, to be fair, was on a recent Amazon Check out where I was stuck on an option for Amazon Prime which I did not want and there appeared no way to proceed without agreeing to a trial of Amazon Prime. However on loading Window-Eyes for Office I was able to check out normally without invoking this trial. It just shows for the best options for access on Windows you ideally need not just multiple browsers but multiple screen readers.,. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: 24 June 2014 12:27 To: Windows Access; Share Your Enthusiasm! Subject: Google Chrome Versus Mozilla FireFox Versus Internet Explorer 11 hello everybody I have a question for you all, and I’d very much welcome as broad a range of opinion as possible as this will be of great assistance to me here at work in an academic project where I’ve been briefed to produce a report detailing the functionality of these web browsers on the Windows platform (first) and their performance and interaction with as wide a variety of assistive accessibility tools as possible. Actually, I am probably going to need to test others, Opera and any others I can come up with in addition to the first three. Regarding screen-readers, I have direct access to Jaws 15, Window-Eyes 8.4, Supernova 14, Access2Go, (I’m not sure of the latest version build here), and, of course, NVDA 2014.3. I’m going to have to learn Jaws pretty thoroughly and pretty quickly I think. Supernova and Window-Eyes are products with which I am very familiar. Oh yes, and in addition to those we also have to consider Dolphin Guide v9.0. Another factor which I need to consider is the huge variety of websites and the very many differing designs. I have until September to produce this, and I really want it to be a thorough, factual and very detailed document. If anybody has any comment which they’d like to make here, I am very receptive to feedback, and grateful for any tips. But it doesn’t stop there! I also have to include as much detail of each product as possible regarding Braille, and the feasibility and otherwise of using Braille as the sole interface when browsing the Internet. Personally, I think that it’s probably not going to be particularly easy to browse the millions of websites which comprise the Internet using Braille alone. But it’s something I’ve been asked to do. And finally, the hardware aspect of Braille comes into the mix. I have direct access to a number of displays, but, sadly, I do not have access to anything like the Braille Sense or the Braille Edge 40 from Hims. Maybe the RNIB might be willing to help me out there. I can only ask. 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