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

  • From: "Paul Bepey" <paulb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:56:39 +0100

Hi Damon.

I'm pretty sure it's

suggestions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Damon Rose
Sent: 04 July 2008 09:48
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: I can't read this page, can you?

 

I gathered there was something like this on the page.

 

I have Flash turned off for this site so I'm guessing it's some kind of
java or ajax controlled thing. When will jaws have a setting to turn off
other dynamic elements in a page and not just Flash? Or maybe it has
already and I don't know about it. Anyone?

 

Also ... does anyone know an email address to report such issues to
Freedom Scientific with? 

 

Appreciated.

 

...Damon 

 

 

 

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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of George Bell
Sent: 04 July 2008 09:35
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: I can't read this page, can you?

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/conferences/
<http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/category/conferences/>  

 

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 
Content Producer: Ouch, Ouch Podcast, See Hear. 
   www.bbc.co.uk/ouch <file:///\\www.bbc.co.uk\ouch>      \
www.bbc.co.uk/seehear <file:///\\www.bbc.co.uk\seehear>  

Have you heard the Ouch Podcast yet? A razor sharp disability talk show
presented by Mat Fraser and Liz Carr: www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast
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Tel: 020 8752 4427 (x0224427) 
email: damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx 


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