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From: Jon Brundage
Date: Mon, Sep 13 2021 7:31AM
Subject: Chrome v Microsoft Edge?
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Hi All-



For accessibility testing, do any of you have a preference between Chrome
and Microsoft Edge? Which browser do you feel is better?



Thanks



Jon

From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Mon, Sep 13 2021 7:40AM
Subject: Re: Chrome v Microsoft Edge?
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I don't think it is a matter of which one is "better," but which browser is the majority of your users likely to use. Also, while it has gotten much better, assistive technology support for Edge is still evolving in some cases.

Dave



From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Mon, Sep 13 2021 8:28AM
Subject: Re: Chrome v Microsoft Edge?
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If you are using Narrator you would want to use Edge as Narrator does not support grouping or table header announcement in Chrome as it does in Edge. Narrator also has some issues with the UI of chrome such as the address bar. This is odd of course because they both use Chromium.

Jonathan

From: Jon Brundage
Date: Mon, Sep 13 2021 8:30AM
Subject: Re: Chrome v Microsoft Edge?
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Thanks Jonathan we are using JAWS. Any thoughts on that?

Jon

From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Mon, Sep 13 2021 9:12AM
Subject: Re: Chrome v Microsoft Edge?
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I use JAWS as my main screen reader with Chrome as my default browser.

When I'm testing sites, however, I'll test a matrix of JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. It helps determine if a failure in WCAG criteria is assistive technology or browser based. Then throw Safari with Voiceover on IOS or OSX - Android and whatever screen reader you prefer with all of the above combinations of browsers... woowee it gets complex.

Have fun, it's like a big parametric equation testing websites!

But to answer your question after that ramble: I prefer Chrome because it is more mature.

David