[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7

[James Pepper]

Well I was demonstrating my process of accessibility and it was only for a
minute and I was closing it down when these people arrived and got very hot
and heavy in a short period of time.  It was an immediate effect.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-----
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> [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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