[nvda] Re: Landing on visited links

On 22.11.2008 16:39, Gene wrote:

Screen-readers do generally return to the place you previously were at if
you leave a page and then return. I haven't used NVDA enough to evaluate
whether this feature exists and its reliability.  this feature is not as
reliable as it might be in the screen-readers I've paid attention to it in.
But this is not a question of returning specifically to visited links.


Exactly, and this is not my point.


Simply remember a word near where you were reading or working with
the page.  When you return to the page. go to the top, use find and search
for the word.  You would remember a word that is not likely to be repeated
much on the page.  This method works well.  I consider reliance on visited
links to often suggest that people don't use the find command to anywhere
near it's useful capacity.  The more often you work with a page and the more
links you follow, the more useless visited links become.
And for this case it would be useful if NVDA lands on the very same link you just have visited. I know that it took some time till Jaws did this reliably, but i think that the work is worth it. Your suggestion is a workaround, but not the solution. Using the find dialog is useful, but in other cases than landing on the last visited link. 
Hermann
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