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?

This bug is essentially a dupe of 1095971 A remaining issue was filed as bug 1096227