[gui-talk] Seeking Guidance On MSIE8

[Mike Freeman]

The only configuring I had to do was to disable ActiveX filtering. This had
nothing to do with screen-reader access but allowed web pages to activate
media players and such. I got at it thru the IE 9 toolbar. Incidentally,
unless you have a web page up, the F6 key won't necessarily take you to the
toolbar; if you're on the address field, just hit tab and you'll get there.

Yes, there is a warning about magic and, I presume, about *all* screen
magnification programs in that the edge-smoothing techniques used by Magic
and other magnification programs don't work in the scheme adopted for IE 9.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jorge Paez
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 12:15 PM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Seeking Guidance On MSIE8

Mike:
What kind of configurations did you have to do?
I'm considering upgrading to IE 9 so I can make sure my websites work with
the latest browsers.

Also: I heard that FS did post a warning for Magic users.



On May 30, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> George:
> 
> I agree with you completely. Office 2007 was quite a change but still 
> quite useable and 2010 isn't that different. Moreover, if one is using 
> JAWS 12, the "virtual Ribbon" menu system makes it even easier. I 
> vascillate between turning it ON and OFF.
> 
> As for IE 9, it isn't that bad unless you're using screen 
> magnification rather than speech synthesis. If this last is the case, 
> one is probably better off staying with IE 8. However, once I made a 
> few configuration changes in IE 9, everything works satisfactorily and 
> although the way one gets at a few of the functions has changed, it 
> isn't that bad IMO. The one caveat I might note is that when I 
> installed IE 9, the installer had to disable JAWS so I had to bring up 
> Narrator to see what was going on and ultimately had to do a system 
> restart (probably needed anyway). But the system seems more stable to me
now than it was before I installed IE 9.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On Behalf Of Jorge Paez
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 8:48 AM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Seeking Guidance On MSIE8
> 
> Not true about office--at least in my experience its been completely 
> accessible.
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2011, at 3:41 AM, James Pepper wrote:
> 
>> IT is as if microsoft has abandoned accessibility in its new 
>> software, particularly office 2010.  It is very strange.  Dont mess 
>> with a good thing, stay where you are!  And absolutely stay away from 
>> IE 9, it is a disaster area for everyone!
>> 
>> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Rob Tabor <rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Good evening all.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have been using MSIE7 for quite some time, even on my new-to-me 
>>> Asus 644 bit laptop running Windows 7. However, I regularly get 
>>> popup prompts to upgrade to MSIE-8 which I am reluctant to do as 
>>> some have reported screen reader interface problems with JAWS, and I 
>>> have personally experienced this problem when I last attempted it 
>>> with JFW 9. I would like to hear any observations you might have to 
>>> offer as to the interface between IE-8 and JAWS 12. Thanks to all in
advance.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Rob Tabor & White Cane Raúl Junior
>>> 
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