[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

relax, it was a one day 30th anniversary celebration of the release of the 
pacman game.
hopefully it will disappear soon.
if you are good, you can jump to the search box quickly and type in your 
search and start getting results before the game automatically starts.
you could have also used yahoo instead.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:05 AM
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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