encountered Issues between Firefox and Dragon NaturallySpeaking 15 home

[isa]

Issues encountered between Firefox and Dragon NaturallySpeaking 15 home

I have a fairly powerful computer, icore5 with 16 megagrams. I need dragon because my disability no longer allows me to use a mouse and keyboard. So I have to control my computer by voice. Here the only possible software is Nuance Dragon.

the Dragon software works well for word processing but if I use it on Firefox mozilla, many Internet functions do not work.
Of course, I installed the nuance dragon home 15 extension for Firefox which is displayed in the top right of the navigation along with the other extensions.

Nuance says it's Firefox's fault, nuance says they sent all the specs to the Mozilla developer who didn't fit the browser enough.
It's always easy to blame someone else and we agree that home dragon 15 is much less efficient than Dragon home 11.5
But I still call on you.

Here are the problems encountered:
- when I browse on Firefox, and I ask "show links" to avoid using the mouse painfully, nothing happens... or else dragon writes "show links". so I have a lot of trouble navigating.
I specify that this command works in general but not always on chrome.
Could someone look into this issue and verify that Mozilla has been updated on this...

I don't use any browser other than Firefox.

Thanks for your feedback about this,

Isa

[Andy-Pandy]

Hi there,

I don't know if this is still relevant to you, Isa, but I also use Dragon and  I have heard this argument from Nuance, the makers of Dragon, in relation to various Microsoft programs, and indeed in relation to the way Windows is set up on computers across my workplace, that other people don't set up their programmes to work properly with Dragon. I don't know the rights and wrongs of this. It seems that either any software that runs on Windows needs to be compatible with their parameters, or that they need to make Dragon more easily compatible, work within a wider range of  parameters –  it sounds to me like the onus should be on Dragon, but I don't really know the ins and outs  of it. I do know that Microsoft bought nuance two or three years ago and they don't seem to have done anything to make it work better with their own software.  It works wonderfully well with Microsoft Word, but functionality is patchy with their other programs, including their own browsers.

Against this background, I have to say that I find of all the browsers, Firefox is the one that works best with Dragon. At one point, it actually worked perfectly – all the functionality translated, including being able to select text and correct it  when typing in boxes on webpages like this one. That, sadly, proved short-lived, but since then, it has still worked better than any other browser. So however much Firefox is or isn't accommodating Dragon, it seems like it's doing a better job than anybody else out there – at least to me (and I've been using Dragon since 2014).On your point, Isa, about showing links, on Firefox what you can do is simply instruct it to "click" on any hyperlink you can see on the screen – the headline of an article,  for instance – and most of the time it will go straight there. It's not 100% accurate, but I have found with other browsers, as you have, that the "show links" just doesn't seem to work at all.  I tend, if it doesn't click on the link that I want it to, just to use the mouse grid, which seems cumbersome at first, but as you may have found out in the years since you wrote this post, you can get to use quite quickly.

Anyway, these thoughts are  why I have found myself at this forum. I wanted to thank the people at Firefox for making sure that even though nuance doesn't seem to update its browser extensions any more, for any  browser,  there is a good level of compatibility. I would love to know who, at Firefox, within this incredible community of developers and users, works on issues of compatibility and accessibility like this. Is there any way that I can get in contact with them? I don't know  if anyone will read this message, at the end of a thread which is already a couple of years old.  I have to say that I would have much more faith in Firefox to take accessibility and disability seriously than I would Microsoft or Apple.

 Wishing you well,

 Andy