Hi, have you tried accessing the sites with other screen readers? I'm not saying JAWS is the culprit here, but we can know for sure if the sites jump with other screen readers, rather than the site is jumpy because of JAWS.
Signed by Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 06/07/2010 14:06, Damon Rose wrote:
Hi there. I'm wondering if someone knows of a solution to this. Perhaps a plug-in or a Firefox extension or a cut down browser of some sort? Most often when I use the web, I use it to read pages. I don't want high functionality. The early days of the web with flat HTML pages were the best as far as I'm concerned. Oftentimes, when I go to newspaper websites or many other pages, my JAWS cursor and Braille display starts fidgeting alarmingly, it doesn't let me arrow down a page properly, it gets stuck and then during reading my cursor gets whipped away so that I have to find the text again and the point in the text where I left off ... just to have the cursor whipped away all over again 30 seconds later. I imagine this is down to Flash, Air, Silverlight, or various Java, ajax, elements on a page. What I've never had the time to do is investigate this to find out which is the worst culprit and why. It's annoying that you can go to a website that is otherwise fully access complient yet there was barely any point them putting in that work if screenreaders just slip and slide over the top of it as if they were skating on ice. Before you ask, I'm working with the latest version of jaws and my computer is entirely virus and adware free. I'm writing this email today after attempting a bit of research on something and failing. I'm a little frustrated. So. How do I stop it? Do I have any kind of control over it? Turning off Flash in the verbosity settings doesn't work on many sites so obviously the issue isn't just around Flash. Or perhaps it's just my computer and every computer I've ever used. Any thoughts on how to conquer this, iether by tweaking my browser, adding plug-ins or extensions, changing browser, viewing sites thru some kind of filter site, whatever, I'm keen to hear from you. I'm getting sick of it. Thanks v much. Damon Rose Senior Content Producer bbc.co.uk/ouch BBC Vision Learning Tel: 020 8752 4427 (x0224427) email: damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx Have you heard the award-winning Ouch Podcast yet? A razor sharp disability talk show presented by Mat Fraser and Liz Carr: www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.
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