[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org announces improved searching on its site
- From: "Christy Schulte" <christy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:07:30 -0400
Hi,
One of the things you can do with jaws, and maybe window eyes, is use the
quick nav keys. For example, if you know a page has a table that holds
specific info, and you know if that table is before or after or around what
you want, you can press t to jump to that table.
I use that a lot, including on book share. For example, to get to the list
of books on the validation page, I just press t until I've reached the table
that has the list of books in it. From there, I read the first title, if
it's not anythign I want I press tab. Tab takes me to the download link, and
a down arrow goes to the next title.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kellie Hartmann
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:52 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org announces improved searching
on its site
Hi Cindy,
Yes, the find works very well with screen readers--it's one of my favorite
commands to use. But it isn't so useful when you don't know exactly what
you're looking for and you're just trying to browse through a list of books
to see what's available. There are ways to set the pages up that would allow
us to move by title through the list of books, and that would be a big time
saver. The one thing that is really hard for blind computer users is that
one can't really skim a web-page. If you know what you're looking for you
can use find, and there are other ways to move around pages, but sometimes
there's nothing for it but to read the page straight through until you find
what you're looking for. Some of the most irritating pages because of their
clutter are Amazon and E-bay. Both of these sites are accessible and work
pretty well, but getting through all the junk to what you want can be a real
pain. Of course, I realize that sighted people also have to fight with
cluttered pages.
Kellie
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