[Blindtlk] Question about Bookshare on the Apex plus another general websites question

[Sami Osborne]

Hi all,

I  received an email from Bookshare informing me that my account 
will terminate in thirty days and therefore I should renew my 
membership beforehand.  I therefore tried to do that today, using 
my Apex, but I ran into a few problems right away.  When I first 
logged on to the site, I was able to enter my email address and 
password, but when I tried to submit my entry, all it displayed 
was something like "Character edchfor" and then some numbers that 
I don't remember (also least that's how it appeared on the 
Braille display).  The next time I went onto the site, I enabled 
the scripting setting on the Apex, because for some reason I 
figured that maybe that might have been the problem.  The problem 
with that was, it was taking a really long time for the Bookshare 
website to load, which I noticed unfortunately tends to happen 
frequently when that setting is turned on.  I really need to 
renew my Bookshare membership, because, I not only use it for 
leisurely reading, but I'm also taking an English class in 
college where we're required to read different books every week.
So, here are my questions: First, do you know if the scripting 
setting is required to be enabled for Bookshare? Second, has it 
ever happened to you that when you attempt to enter your login 
information, you only get that strange character that I mentioned 
earlier?

I also had a general question about accessing the internet on the 
Apex.  I've noticed for a while that some websites that I visit 
frequently seem to be down, because I always get the dreaded 
error message: "The page cannot be displayed", when I know for a 
fact that they're not down because I can access them on other 
devices as well as asking some people if they work for them.  
Recently I tried doing a factory settings reset (space with dots 
456), but that doesn't seem to solve the problem at all.  I also 
even tried changing the web browser profile once before which 
also didn't work.  What could I do to solve this issue?

I really hope you guys can answer my questions, especially 
regarding the Bookshare issue.

Thanks and enjoy the start to your semesters,

Sami