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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 4, 2018 2:58PM

Hi Sean, there was a discussion about this maybe a year or so ago with talk of Edge and slowness of the browse/virtual cursor and talk about the end of these methods of access in browsers generally. I expressed my concern about the virtual/browse cursor going away -- I believe it is a very efficient way of navigating and it provides some things and ease of use that can't be done with object navigation. For example, moving from word, letter, line in one object into another, etc. without having to worry about switching objects. I haven't heard much about this lately so I hope the issues or concerns have been addressed.

Jonathan


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All,



I saw a post here a while ago on a new train of thought for screen readers to navigate the web page by objects similar to what Voice-Over does. Does anyone have any information on this that I can read to see how or why this is the new thinking?



As I have some concerns and want to read up before sharing to ensure I am on the right thinking.





Sean