Tag Archives: Firefox

Fire IE: trick Dragon and websites into thinking you’re using Internet Explorer (sometimes)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by hand2mouth

I noticed recently that some sites I used at work didn’t display properly in Firefox, whether I had Flash enabled or not. At home, I couldn’t read the comments on sites that used the Disqus commenting system. They worked fine … Continue reading →

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Change size of Firefox text cursor

Posted on March 29, 2013 by hand2mouth

In Windows itself, I’ve set the keyboard focus rectangle and keyboard cursor to be thicker than normal. (Control Panel > Ease of Access Center > Make the computer easier to see, under Make things on the screen easier to see.) … Continue reading →

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Dragon 11.5 with a Lenovo ThinkPad T420, Flash, and a few considerations

Posted on December 26, 2012 by hand2mouth

O yeah, I owe reviews. Handy is rusty. The retaliation for speaking up for myself continues to be nasty and subtle and draining. This is not a post-ADA world. So, as I’m taking a snow day and dictating over the  … Continue reading →

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Improve Dragon’s autoscroll in Firefox: Yet Another Smooth Scrolling

Posted on December 31, 2011 by hand2mouth

I’ve written before about how to change the auto scrolling speed/length in Dragon 11 using the Mouse settings in the Control Panel. However, if you only use auto scrolling for reading pages in Firefox, there’s an add-on that does the … Continue reading →

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Dragon 11 Premium review: mostly improved

Posted on April 12, 2011 by hand2mouth

I hadn’t been writing about speech recognition lately because my assistive technology budget, as well as my spare time, had to address mobility and ways to rest my voice. However, as I’ve said, gift cards are wonderful things. They paid … Continue reading →

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Tab Utilities revisited: tab widths, new tabs, accessibility

Posted on April 2, 2011 by hand2mouth

Tab Utilities was recently made compatible with Firefox 4. I’ve written about it before as a way for speech recognition users to open bookmarks or links in new tabs, but the changes to about:config make it worth mentioning again for … Continue reading →

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Use your computer without a mouth or mouse

Posted on February 18, 2011 by hand2mouth

From the stats: “computer without mouth” and “firefox without mouth.” You don’t need your mouth to use a computer or a browser unless you use the following: Speech recognition A mouthstick A bite or sip/puff switch or other breath control … Continue reading →

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WordPress links with typeaheadfind.linksonly

Posted on September 10, 2010 by hand2mouth

From the stats: “broken links wordpress.” I don’t know if this is what the searcher was referring to, but the closest link problem I’ve seen with WordPress sites is that if you’re using typeaheadfind.linksonly and use Find Again to get … Continue reading →

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Bypassing the text field in Google’s Instant Search

Posted on September 9, 2010 by hand2mouth

I’m getting mildly peeved at the way Google’s changes are causing micro annoyances with accessibility. First it was Gmail, making it difficult to vocally click buttons in the full-featured Standard mode. Then it was Images, requiring you to mouse over … Continue reading →

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Workaround for broken Firefox typeaheadfind.enabletimeout setting

Posted on August 22, 2010 by hand2mouth

UPDATE: The timeout feature is even more broken, if possible; these workarounds will no longer work. Using Firefox 10. After several versions, Mozilla still has not fixed the accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout setting related to linksonly. If it worked, setting it to false … Continue reading →

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