The best feature for continuing to use IE, which David taught me, is to use it to construct a Favorites file, which you can then place on your desktop. Using IE makes it really easy to add to, edit, and maintain this folder. Then, when you click on your Favorites folder, it opens up in your chosen default browser.
Editing bookmarks in Chrome using a screen reader is just impossible, or, at least, way more time consuming and tedious.
David mentioned Brave, and the privacy issue that Brave is designed to address, but he didn't really get into browsers outside of IE, Firefox, and Chrome. This was fine by me, because we spent three straight days stuffing my brain with the learning plan I had outlined, and that focused on Chrome and Google apps.
Regarding IE, you need to remember that *lots* of visually impaired users are using old versions of Jaws, because either they can't afford the updates, or the cognitive load and anxiety of learning a new browser and new versions of Jaws--which is *radically* different from what it was even four years ago--is a hard limit. I spent three full days from 9 to 5 just updating my Jaww, Word, Outlook, and Google Drive and Docs skills. It was both hard and exhausting, and I still need to often go back and review the docs and lists of keyboard shortcuts.
When you are visually impaired, learning a new, or even updated interface, is like having someone come in and reorganize your kitchen, or your library, according to their idea of where things should go, and then leaving you to figure out where the things you need are. And when you can't even find your coffee, everything else gets a lot harder.
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Date: 2020-08-04 01:57 pm (UTC)Editing bookmarks in Chrome using a screen reader is just impossible, or, at least, way more time consuming and tedious.
David mentioned Brave, and the privacy issue that Brave is designed to address, but he didn't really get into browsers outside of IE, Firefox, and Chrome. This was fine by me, because we spent three straight days stuffing my brain with the learning plan I had outlined, and that focused on Chrome and Google apps.
Regarding IE, you need to remember that *lots* of visually impaired users are using old versions of Jaws, because either they can't afford the updates, or the cognitive load and anxiety of learning a new browser and new versions of Jaws--which is *radically* different from what it was even four years ago--is a hard limit. I spent three full days from 9 to 5 just updating my Jaww, Word, Outlook, and Google Drive and Docs skills. It was both hard and exhausting, and I still need to often go back and review the docs and lists of keyboard shortcuts.
When you are visually impaired, learning a new, or even updated interface, is like having someone come in and reorganize your kitchen, or your library, according to their idea of where things should go, and then leaving you to figure out where the things you need are. And when you can't even find your coffee, everything else gets a lot harder.