Re: Questions Regarding Browsing The Web With JAWS
- From: "Alex Stone" <alex.stone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:40:19 +0100
Debbie, ctrl+enter won't work either. I've found that you can get to them
if you do a jaws find for the text you're looking for, then route jaws to pc
and do a left click. This is far from a robust workaround, as it doesn't
always seem to work.
Cheers.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Questions Regarding Browsing The Web With JAWS
> Did you try control enter? I couldn't get to where you were referring to
> cause I don't have an account. Do you have another website as an example?
> Debbie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Hardy" <grant_hardy@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:13 PM
> Subject: Questions Regarding Browsing The Web With JAWS
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I haven't been around on the list too much this summer but now would like
to
> post a question that's been bugging me for a long time. Traditionally, to
> activate a link with JAWS on a webpage, one would simply have to arrow or
> tab
> to this link and then press enter, or press insert+f7 and select the link
> from
> the links list. However, there are some sites, like www.gmail.com, that
> have
> some links that JAWS doesn't seem to recognize as normal links. For
> example,
> once I log in to GMail I see something like:
> Contacts | Settings | Help | Sign Out
> All of these are links, but JAWS reads these as normal text. Of course,
> they
> don't appear in the links list and you can't enter on them. But here's
the
> interesting part: if you turn off the virtual cursor with insert+z, you
can
> then tab to these links as you would normally, press enter on them, or
even
> find them in the links list. There is just something that these links
don't
> like about the virtual cursor, smile. Has anyone been able to activate
> these
> with the virtual cursor turned on?
>
> Grant
>
>
>
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