The "S" navigation key broken by JAWS 8 or by I E 7
- From: "ptusing" <ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:38:58 -0500
Hi,
It took some time for friends who use the "s" (move to same element)
navigation key to discover that the "s" moves to every single link using
JAWS 8 instead of staying on the same link type as with JAWS 7.0
andearlier.
The "s" keystroke allows one to let's say
find movie titles on a shopping site, stay within the
radio stations on a large radio listing site, CD's on a shopping site
without having to read the links inbetween like
"director" or "price".
One stays within the item chosen to quickly move down longl ists ofthe same
thing.
For me and others, when one wants to use it, the s lets one avoid 80% of
unwanted links so one can easily speed through pages with hundreds of
links on them.
Insert F 7 is great except there are sites where one has no idea what the
first letter is orwhere names are random as in stories in newspapers or
in
long lists of items on shopping sites. People at FS saw the advanttage of
the s on shopping sites.
I do not blame F S but this S" keystroke should be fixed as it can really
save one lots of time when one really wants to avoid unwanted information
and get directly to onewants.
This is like skim reading and our time is valuable.
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