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Re: Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations

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From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Oct 23, 2019 11:38AM

Since the updates early this year, Narrator has become useful to me in some
situations. It works fairly well with the Edge browser, but of course, I
have to put up with the inconsistent performance of Edge. I can navigate
around complex pages at fidelity.com with headings, landmarks and custom
widgets.On the other hand, Narrator is laughably bad with Firefox and
Chrome. It usually works well with Word 2019 but seems inconsistent in large
tables It is barely usable with Outlook.
It is poor at reading PDFs in Acrobat or edge . Occasionally, I have opened
PDFs in Word and managed to read them.
The biggest disappointment for me is that it works inconsistently in MS
Visual Studio Community 2019. For example, it won't read a line of code that
has no spaces in front of the text.

Jeff G


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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Query on Narrator enhancements & expectations

In Recent versions of windows, Narrator has been enhanced. These
enhancements, as far as I know do not apply in earlier versions of Windows.
Jaws and NVDA have kept up and work more consistently in newer and earlier
versions of Windows.
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