[access-uk] Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!
- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Access UK Mailing List" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:33:57 -0000
Hi All
I'm fizzing, and I mean really hopping mad with frustration, so please could
someone tell me if the following problem is me going balmy, or is it really
JAWS 9.0.whatever?
When I go onto a portion of the BBC website and copy something to the clipboard
to paste into a Microsoft Word document, JAWS is behaving really strangely. It
either hangs, or doesn't paste the information from the clipboard at all into
the document. It does it now and then, but more often than not just won't
paste.
Ian came across this with the text relating to Dale Winton's Pick of the Pops
show on the Radio 2 portion of the BBC site. He told me about it, but it's
only now that I'm trying to do it myself on the tennis section of the same site
that I'm able to replicate it.
I'm actually trying to compile a report of a tennis match for an assignment for
my Sports Journalism course, and because I can't spell a lot of these players'
names by heart, I was copying their correct spelling from the site into my
document. But oh no! I can't do it, and have to keep swapping between the site
and the report I have open to type them in by hand.
I'm doing this using Vista Home Premium, JAWS 9.0.whatever, and Microsoft Word
Professional 2003. Ian has already come across this problem using the same
version of JAWS with XP Home and Microsoft Word Professional 2003.
Frankly it is driving me mad, and if something is wrong with JAWS that it
doesn't allow you to copy and paste from the BBC site using version 9.0, and
you have to revert to a previous version, then that's bloody ridiculous.
Ian says he had the same problem in Amazon the other night, when he tried to
paste some information about an album into a file to save. He says he has to
keep going back to JAWS 8.whatever to do what he needs to. God I am so angry
now in frustration because this is slowing me up no end.
Any confirmation would be useful please as this is a really serious issue if it
is down to JAWS.
Many thanks.
Jackie
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