[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

[John Ramsey]

Hello James:
Fortunately I have not had that happen but I have noticed that the former
page www.google.com/ie is now an advertisement for IE 8. It used to be a
wonderful scaled down version of their search engine without all of the
descriptions and graphics in the results.
Take care,
John

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James Pepper
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:06 AM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7


Hello, I used Internet Explorer 7 because I have JAWS 8 and yesterday Google
put a game on its main page which was pacman.  This froze Internet Explorer
7, I had to upgrade  to IE 8 to get work done.  Not only that but I use
Adobe InDesign and it placed an image of the game into my InDesign document,
and that image was not on th epage I was working on, it just loaded it into
the document.  It was lucky I found it.  So this thing is invasive and it
slows down the Internet.  So everyone seemed to like the game but it just
annihilated productivity and it disabled the computer, everything got slow.
I kno wit was Google who did this, but to me the effect was exactly like a
virus.  But everyone was happy with the game so it didn't show up in the
press as an internet threat.

The game is still up.

Also I was in a restaurant the other day and had a screen reader going to
demonstrate a process and it was a bit noisy in the restaurant but I did not
have the volume up that much but people were infuriated that I had this
thing going. It was not that loud, people were definitely drowning out the
noise but it as continuously speaking and I can see how it would annoy
people.  I turned it off but it was a matter of  one guy who was making off
hand remarks about beating me up that I thought was a bit extreme. Never had
that happen before.

The screen reader was going along speaking continuously and yes it kept
droning on about the page contents, well you know what they do.  Anyway have
you all encountered anything like this, or was this ust an extreme moment?

James
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