That is probably because you have all the latest patches for Jaws 9 and maybe the school hasn't gotten them yet. Jay -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of alice dampman Humel Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:02 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: jaws not reading webpages I'm using JAWS 9 with IE 8, and it works as well as it ever did... Alice alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay" <jay.p@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 8:41 AM Subject: RE: jaws not reading webpages > It sounds like the school has updated to IE 8. You won't be able to > read > it > with Jaws 9 anymore that I am aware of. > > Jay > > -----Original Message----- > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Michael Kizer > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 7:28 AM > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: jaws not reading webpages > > > Try fire fox. > > Ben Peters wrote: >> I ran into an issue today that I've never seen before. At my college >> the computers that have jaws on them (jaws 9) would not read >> webpages. When I loaded the internet it would read the web address, >> but when I arrowed or tabbed to navigate the site, jaws would read >> absolutely nothing even though sighted people said the page was >> moving. The cursor was in the right location, and nothing if a link >> was clicked with the mouse. It either read nothing at all, or it kept >> repeating "open parent document" whenever I hit the arrow key to >> navigate the site. It did this on all webpages, but in no other >> application. >> >> I am curious if anyone knows what is going on, and how I can fix this >> so I can use the internet. I had no problem prior to today, and the >> jaws hasn't been upgraded. >> >> Its using internet explorer and windows xp. >> >> Thanks, Ben >> MyAngelBlessings1@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:MyAngelBlessings1@xxxxxxxxx> > -- > JFW related links: > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > Scripting mailing list: > http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > JFW List instructions: > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To > unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject > line. 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