[jaws-uk] Re: Research it

  • From: chris hallsworth <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:15:23 +0100

No JAWS 11 and I agree with you Graham. I can understand the use from an 
employment standpoint, but searching the web is something we were all 
taught at the beginning of our computer lives smiles.


Chris Hallsworth
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On 09/10/2011 11:27, Graham Page wrote:
> it does seem to me that research it is more trouble than it's worth.  if
> memory serves me right it appeared in JAWS 10 so it's over 2 ears old.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Horniblow (Talking Newspaper Services)
> Sent: 09 October 2011 11:17
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Research it
>
> The query it forms appears valid. For example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=chicken&format=xm
> l&limit=1
> This returns valid data, so what's happening after that is anyone's guess.
> I have to admit that ResearchIT has always defeated me. It's like a
> team sat down and said "how can we take a simple idea, and make it
> almost impossibly complicated, tricky to debug and poorly documented?"
> and then vomited up the result and ensured that any questions to FS
> about it would go totally unanswered.
>
> All I can tell you is that the debugger (which works differently from
> the documentation - thanks, FS) is of no help either - it just spews
> out error code 4 which has no reference.
>
>
> On 9 October 2011 10:17, Alan Philpott<alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> I won't comment further then.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Iain Lackie
>> Sent: 09 October 2011 09:15
>> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Research it
>>
>>
>> It is only the Wiktionary and Wikipedia searches which are not working. I
>> can only conclude that there must have been some change in both of these
>> sites which cause the search facility not to work properly.
>>
>> Iain
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Philpott
>> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 8:47 AM
>> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Research it
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am going to state something which may be obvious but have you checked
> that
>> the internet connexion is sound on your computer because if it has
> dropped,
>> research won't work.
>> ?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jack Jones
>> Sent: 31 December 1979 12:27
>> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Research it
>>
>>
>> Hi all!
>>   I am having problems using research it. I am using JAWS 11 and
>> windows 7. Every time I search for something using Wikipedia or
>> Wiktionary, it just says wikipedia searched for ...... and got no
>> results. It just started randomly yesterday. Has anyone else
>> experienced this? How can I fix it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Jack Jones
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