Web Browsers' Security And Compatibility With NVDA
Jolene Cardenas
Hello everyone,
Since I'm a Hadley School For The Blind student, taking online courses for my Adult Continuing Education degree, I totally depend on NVDA to work with my Web browser in order to complete schoolwork successfully. However, on several occasions in late 2015, I ran in to technical difficulties with assignment submission for one of my online classes because of Firefox incompatibility issues on the school's assignment submission webpage. I contacted Tech Support and, to my horror, they recommended that I go back to using Internet Explorer in order to do my schoolwork. Although I had used IE for as long as I can remember, I had stopped using it because of this article (among many others): Millions of Windows users to face MAJOR security issues within weeks http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/624760/Windows-Microsoft-Internet-Explorer-End-Support-Web-Browser Then when I got my new Asus laptop in February which runs Windows 10, I read an article that said that NVDA wasn't compatible with Microsoft Edge (See below for the link). NVDA and Windows 10 http://www.nvaccess.org/win10/ Unsure which browser I should use then, I immediately returned to using Firefox and attempted to submit a homework assignment to Hadley through its usage, only to run in to the same technical difficulties with assignment submission again! Undoubtedly, the school's Tech Support will urge me to switch back to using IE again, but I admit I'm afraid to because of what I had read in the above article about this browser. I'm also fully aware that if I was to chat with somebody at Microsoft's Disability Answer Desk at: https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=12&ct=1436994582&rver=6.5.6509.0&wp=mbi_ssl&wreply=https%3a%2f%2fpartner.support.services.microsoft.com%2fen-us%2fpartners%2fdad&lc=1033&id=293453&pcexp=false they would try to push me to use Edge as my browser in spite of its incompatibility with NVDA. This situation's so frustrating for me, because I so badly want to submit my coursework ASAP! Can anyone using Windows 10 and NVDA please recommend a browser to me? Thank you so much, for you have no idea how much I would appreciate your recommendation! aloha, Jolene.
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