[access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!

  • From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:12:28 -0000

Nikolay Davydenko selected with no problems.

Iain
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!


Hi Chris

No I had no idea, and I'm not sure I understand why this addition has been
included.  I was only trying to take the first and second name of two
players, not an entire page, to paste.  It got so upset that my machine
crashed, so I lost my text.  Fortunately I had done a save just before going
to the site, but it's really irritating nevertheless.

Well very confuzzled indeed, but never mind (smile).

Jackie
Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
Skype Name: Cairnsplace
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Infuriating JAWS problem with BBC website!


> Hi Jackie, you're probably not aware of this, but JAWS 9 has introduced
> new ways of copying web page content so that, supposedly, when you paste
> it, it appears as if a sighted persom was viewing it, in other words, none
> of the JAWS blurb appears in the pasted text. This is known as "select and
> copy", and is a new item in the new Adjust JAWS options dialogue box,
> accessed with insert v. If you set this to "from virtual cursor", it
> should behave like previous JAWS versions. The bug you're experiencing is
> not to do with the feature itself, but it's the way Word handles the
> pasted text when "select and copy" is set to "full content" or "full
> content with onscreen highlight". I fully understand your frustrations,
> particularly if it's for an assignment, and I hope what I've explained
> helps and obviously enable you to complete the assignment. Good luck.
>
> Jackie Cairns wrote:
>> 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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