Closed Bug 712872 Opened 13 years ago Closed 9 years ago

JAWS 11.0.1476 fails to properly read pages/UI when Hardware Acceleration is on with nvidia geforce gt240

Categories

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1095971

People

(Reporter: mardeg, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access) 

I_stephen on IRC reported this problem, and because he didn't even know about hardware acceleration, stayed on Firefox 3.6 due to the difficulties until he turned off hw acceleration.
I don't know if I picked the right component. Is a possible solution to have the Accessibility API detect JAWS or NVDA (which he said also had problems) and turn off hardware acceleration in that case? It seems the blind are the least likely to upgrade video graphics cards.

Text-to-speech is unable to read status messages (fixed by installing Status4evar extension) and
<I_stephen> when I use the jaws cursor, the stuff it reads isn't consistent with what is actually on the screen.
(also fixed by turning off hardware acceleration)
about:support
 Application Basics

        Name
        Firefox

        Version
        9.0.1

        User Agent
        Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1

        Profile Directory

          Open Containing Folder

        Enabled Plugins

          about:plugins

        Build Configuration

          about:buildconfig

        Crash Reports

          about:crashes

        Memory Use

          about:memory

  Extensions

        Name

        Version

        Enabled

        ID

        Status-4-Evar
        2011.11.13.22
        true
        status4evar@caligonstudios.com

        Java Quick Starter
        1.0
        false
        jqs@sun.com

        Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
        1.0
        false
        {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}

  Modified Preferences

      Name

      Value

        browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
        2

        browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
        20111220165912

        browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
        rv:9.0.1

        extensions.lastAppVersion
        9.0.1

        gfx.direct2d.disabled
        true

        layers.acceleration.disabled
        true

        network.cookie.prefsMigrated
        true

        places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
        80509

        places.history.expiration.transient_optimal_database_size
        128814120

        privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
        true

        security.warn_viewing_mixed
        false

  Graphics

        Adapter Description
        NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

        Vendor ID
        10de

        Device ID
        0ca3

        Adapter RAM
        Unknown

        Adapter Drivers
        nv4_disp

        Driver Version
        6.14.12.6099

        Driver Date
        10-16-2010

        Adapter RAM (GPU #2)
        Unknown

        Adapter Drivers (GPU #2)
        Unknown

        WebGL Renderer
        Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 240) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.809)

        GPU Accelerated Windows
        0/1
Is this still an issue?
Flags: needinfo?(mardeg)
This bug is essentially a dupe of 1095971
A remaining issue was filed as bug 1096227
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mardeg)
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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