[access-uk] Re: I can't read this page, can you?

From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:34:56 +0100

Hi Damon,

 

Coming at this from a sighted perspective, I can see that
there is a section at the top of the page which changes.
Consequently I suspect your screen reader is seeing this
change and trying to refresh the off-screen model.

 

I'm sure there's a way of handling this in JAWS, but will
have to defer to the experts to explain just how.

 

George.

 

From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Damon Rose
Sent: 04 July 2008 09:05
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] I can't read this page, can you?

 

Hi. Are you feeling helpful and brave this morning? 

I'm using jaws 8 with IE6 on Windows XP here 

I wanted to read a blog entry about a web social inclusion
techie conference I was interested in. it's on the Guardian
website, so a well known and popular site. But I think the
website has some dynamic content on it that is utterly
stuffing up my JAWS. Being as I have these kinds of problems
a lot, I'm really interested to see if you can read the
following website without any trouble: 

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/category/conferen
ces/
<http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/category/confere
nces/>  

 

Note that it affects my jaws so badly that I can't easily
leave internet explorer. But when I do, jaws performance is
severely impaired when using other applications such as
Outlook that I normally use without problem. 

The good news is that simply turning jaws off and turning it
back on again brings it back to new. But I still can't read
the page I pasted in above. 

Any help or thoughts on what is on this page that is
stopping me from raeding it most appreciated. 

Oh and I should note that here at work I can't install IE7,
I am stuck with JAWS 8 for a few more months until jaws 9 is
rolled out to the network, and I'm most definitely tied to
XP for a while longer. So suggesting I move to IE7 is
currently a definite no. 

A wider question here is, if you also can't read this
website - and it's only a blog - do you have similar
reactions from your screenreader on other sites? And are you
just getting a bit sick at the number of modern websites
that jaws can't cope with lately as web science moves on
a-pace. 

Thanks so much. 

...Damon 

 

Damon Rose 
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