[access-uk] Re: Solution to jumpy web pages?
- From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:35:26 +0100
Damon
Here are my suggestions. In Jaws, you can switch almost everything off. Try
setting Show Inline Frames, Refresh Page Automatically and everything else
you can find in the verbosity dialogue off. Only switch them back on when
they cause you a problem. One advantage of IE with Jaws is that you can have
specific settings for particular sites, but they haven’t implemented this in
Firefox sadly.
If you truly want a flat web experience, like it was in 1996, Webbie is the
thing for you, especially as you can switch between its text view and its IE
view, and decide which it should start in.
Also, make use of live bookmarks in Firefox or RSS in IE to view headlines.
Then you need only visit the page for actual text. You could also search for
text only or mobile site links using the links list or search feature.
Cheers
Dave
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Damon Rose
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 2:06 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Solution to jumpy web pages?
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
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