[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

[Joe Orozco]

Frankly, even as a blind person who understands a screen reader, I would
find a chattering computer more than distracting, perhaps even more so
because I could understand the chattering.  In cases where I am taking notes
at a meeting I simply use an earpiece to comfortably take notes and
participate in the meeting in progress.

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing 

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cathryn Bonnette
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 6:16 PM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

James,

I've had similar experiences in government agency meetings 
regardless of the
volume level. For people who are not used to hearing the 
computer voice, the
effect is annoying.

Cathryn

-----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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