[Blindmath] An issue with JAWS and Wolfram Alpha -- how can this be resolved?

[Jose Tamayo]

Good evening,

My name is Jose Tamayo.  First of all, I would ask you which version of JAWS
are you using at this time.

I would love to help if I can.

Is the app  you are referring to a local installation which I could help by
using Tandem to connect and try some things out.


Thanks,
Jose Tamayo 
-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Petr
Parízek
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:33 PM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: [Blindmath] An issue with JAWS and Wolfram Alpha -- how can this be
resolved?

Hello to everyone.

To introduce myself, I study music composition, I'm also a piano and flute
player, and I'm very interested in lots of things concerning musical
acoustics, microtonal and historical tunings, or digitized audio. To access
my computer, I use JAWS essentially on a daily basis.

Now, why am I writing to this group ... I sometimes use Wolfram Alpha (not
very often, but occasionally I do). And I've observed a strange thing
happening. After I type an expression into the input field and the new
webpage comes up, I can happily click the links to solutions or alternate
forms when I'm running Internet Explorer. Surprisingly, when I try to do the
same in another browser like Firefox or perhaps Google Chrome, the solutions
or alternate forms are interpreted by JAWS as graphics which can't be
reached by the JAWS cursor, which means I can't simulate a left-mouse-click
which would copy the expression into the input field. Does this mean that no
other browser than IE is able to tell JAWS that these are actually links
which should be possible to activate like any other link?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Petr from Brno, Czech Rep.

 


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