[jaws-uk] How can I make JAWS recognise these links?

Hi folks,

I'm having an access problem with a website and would like some advice ...

System: Windows XP Home, fully updated; JFW 8, latest version; Internet 
Explorer 7
Website: http://www.virgindigital.co.uk

This is a music download site, but you don't have to register to search their 
database or listen to the sound samples, and all aspects of the site are fine, 
including registration and purchasing, but my difficulty is with browsing 
within pages.

I select an artist in the normal way, and it comes up with the artist's albums 
and total number of tracks. If this number of tracks exceeds 30, JAWS will not 
allow me to continue to the next page by using the PC cursor, I have to go into 
jaws cursor and search about for the links, they appear in a row from left to 
right labelled Start, 1, 2 etc and finishing with Next. I can press the left 
mouse key on Next and it will take me to the next page, but why doesn't JFW 
recognise these as normal links, they don't appear in the links list either, 
but I am told that they look like normal links, and a demo copy of Window-Eyes 
which I use as a backup treats them normally, laying them out in a vertical 
column just like the links in a search engine.

So what should I do? Should I contact Virgin Digital and tell them their 
browsing function is difficult to access, or should I ask Freedom Scientific 
why links that appear normal to a sighted user are not recognised by their 
program?

Is there anything I can do to JFW to make it see these links as normal? I get 
the same result regardless of whether or not Flash is enabled.

Regards,

Pete H.


http://www.therockery.net

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