[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

[Mike Freeman]

IMO no great loss as the stripped-down version didn't have any headers to 
skip between search results. (grin)

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ramsey" <joramsey at cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7


> 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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