Or if it wraps over more than one line you copy and paste it - a bit of a pain if it wraps over more than 2 lines as jaws won't always pick up more than one line at a time for some reason. Adrian Higginbotham, Manager, Leading edge research Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994 Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/ BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ -----Original Message----- From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Page Sent: 21 August 2008 15:20 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: After Installing JAWS 9 but I don't see the problem either way to be honest since you just press enter on the link in the email and open it straight away with your internet browser. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Howard" <colin@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: After Installing JAWS 9 > Greetings, > > Tristram, I am really surprised when you gave such long and complex > links, have you never heard of: > > http://tinyurl.com/ > > into which I put the links you gave, I paste below the results from > this site, followed by what comes up when the site is entered. > > TinyURL was created! > The following URL: > > http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/CD010225771033.a > spx?stt=21 > > has a length of 70 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL > which has a length of 25 characters: > http://tinyurl.com/6km33w > [Open in new window] > > Or, give your recipients confidence with a preview TinyURL: > http://preview.tinyurl.com/6km33w > [Open in new window] > > This TinyURL has been copied to your clipboard. To paste it in a > document, press and hold down the ctrl key while pressing the V key, > or choose the "paste" option from the edit menu. > > TinyURL was created! > The following URL: > > http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/CD010225771033.a > spx?stt=1 > > has a length of 69 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL > which has a length of 25 characters: > http://tinyurl.com/6a7guh > [Open in new window] > Or, give your recipients confidence with a preview TinyURL: > http://preview.tinyurl.com/6a7guh > [Open in new window] > > This TinyURL has been copied to your clipboard. To paste it in a > document, press and hold down the ctrl key while pressing the V key, > or choose the "paste" option from the edit menu. > > and, if you enter the site this is what comes up. > > TinyURL.com > Making long URLs usable! More than 100 million of them. Over 1.5 > billion hits/month. > Home > > Example > > Make Toolbar Button > > Redirection > > Hide URLs > > Preview Featurecool! > > Link to Us! > > Terms of use > > Contact Us! > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > Cool Sites > CoolWhois.com > Unicyclist Community > Gilby.com > MagicBounce Party Rentals > > Liberty and Freedom > Don't Regulate the Internet > Campaign for Liberty > Read the Bills Act Coalition > > Welcome to TinyURL!T > Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent > causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then > you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field > below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings > and never expires. > > Enter a long URL to make tiny: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Custom alias (optional): > http://tinyurl.com/ > May contain letters, numbers, and dashes. > > An example > Turn this URL: > > http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma > p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI > gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6 > OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN > lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf > XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC > 9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg% > 252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP > into this tinyURL: > http://tinyurl.com/6 > Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? That's the > power of TinyURL! > > Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar > > Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. > > TinyURL! > Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the > click of a button. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will > be created for the page you are currently at. > > This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as > your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. The links toolbar may > not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it > in the > View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. You can also put it in your > bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. > > > Can't drag and drop? For some users, such as some recent IE 6 > installations, the clicking and dragging of links that contain > javascript is no longer supported. To add this to your IE links > toolbar, click the link with your right mouse button and select "Add > to Favorites..." from the menu. Click OK if a security warning alert > pops-up (this shows up since the link contains javscript). If a list > of folders is not shown, click the "Create in >>>" > button (see image at right). Now select the folder called "Links" and > then click OK. You should now see the TinyURL on your links toolbar, > if not, see the last paragraph above. > > Redirection to any page in your site! > With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any > page on your site. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage > that is at: > > http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername > Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like > http://tinyurl.com/3 > With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site > by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. So if you have a > page at http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername/my-links-page.html, > you can use the URL http://tinyurl.com/3/my-links-page.html and going > to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. > > Hide your affiliate URLs > Are you posting something that you don't want people to know what the > URL is because it might give away that it's an affiliate link? Then > you can enter a URL into TinyURL, and your affiliate link will be > hidden from the visitor, only the tinyurl.com address and the ending > address will be visible to your visitors. > > > Link to us! > Please link to us! Just make a link to http://tinyurl.com or use the > following code to make a URL input box: > <form action="http://tinyurl.com/create.php"; method="post" > target="_blank"> > <table align="center" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#E7E7F7"><tr><td> > <b>Enter a long URL to make <a > href="http://tinyurl.com";>tiny</a>:</b><br > /> > <input type="text" name="url" size="30"><input type="submit" name="submit" > value="Make TinyURL!"> > </td></tr></table> > </form> > > > Terms of use: > TinyURL was created as a free service to make posting long URLs > easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. Using it for spamming or > illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the > TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved > and to the proper governmental agencies. This service is provided > without warranty of any kind. > > > > Copyright © 2002-2008 Gilby Productions. All rights reserved. > TinyURL is a trademark of Gilby Productions. > > From Colin Howard near Southampton in Southern England. > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 3374 (20080821) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > Graham Page Home Phone: 0207 265 9493 Mobile: 07753 607980 Fax: 0870 706 2773 Email: gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: gabriel_mcbird@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: gabriel_mcbird ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq