Hi Damon,
How do you feel about trying out Safari 5? I ask this because it has a
controversial bit of technology called READER.
Note that this is different from an RSS reader, and controversial
because it strips out adverts, sidebars, other annoyances, and glues
multi-page articles into one handy reading pane.
The rumble on the interwebs is that many advert-supported sites are
not happy, so try it while you can!
Other suggestions: Many news sites have a "print" version of the page
which strips out some of the annoyance, and since I mentioned RSS,
what about using an RSS reader, or google reader, and not having to
enter the site at all?
On 6 July 2010 14:06, Damon Rose <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there.
I'm wondering if someone knows of a solution to this. Perhaps a plug-in
or a
Firefox extension or a cut down browser of some sort?
Most often when I use the web, I use it to read pages. I don't want high
functionality. The early days of the web with flat HTML pages were the
best
as far as I'm concerned.
Oftentimes, when I go to newspaper websites or many other pages, my JAWS
cursor and Braille display starts fidgeting alarmingly, it doesn't let me
arrow down a page properly, it gets stuck and then during reading my
cursor
gets whipped away so that I have to find the text again and the point in
the
text where I left off … just to have the cursor whipped away all over
again
30 seconds later.
I imagine this is down to Flash, Air, Silverlight, or various Java, ajax,
elements on a page. What I've never had the time to do is investigate
this
to find out which is the worst culprit and why.
It's annoying that you can go to a website that is otherwise fully access
complient yet there was barely any point them putting in that work if
screenreaders just slip and slide over the top of it as if they were
skating
on ice.
Before you ask, I'm working with the latest version of jaws and my
computer
is entirely virus and adware free. I'm writing this email today after
attempting a bit of research on something and failing. I'm a little
frustrated.
So. How do I stop it? Do I have any kind of control over it? Turning off
Flash in the verbosity settings doesn't work on many sites so obviously
the
issue isn't just around Flash.
Or perhaps it's just my computer and every computer I've ever used.
Any thoughts on how to conquer this, iether by tweaking my browser,
adding
plug-ins or extensions, changing browser, viewing sites thru some kind of
filter site, whatever, I'm keen to hear from you. I'm getting sick of it.
Thanks v much.
Damon Rose
Senior Content Producer bbc.co.uk/ouch
BBC Vision Learning
Tel: 020 8752 4427 (x0224427)
email: damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx
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