[gui-talk] Unable to Access Target.com web Site Using IE 8 With XP

[Gerald Levy]

Nice try.  But even when I type www.target.com directly into the IE 8 
address bar, I still get the browser not supported message instead of the 
Target home page.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rasmussen, Lloyd" <lras at loc.gov>
To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Unable to Access Target.com web Site Using IE 8 With 
XP


> IE 8 can autocomplete the entry of URLs and filenames.  I don't know 
> whether JAWS 9 supports checking this, but when you type an address like 
> www.target.com , you might be getting different results if you down arrow 
> a couple of times.  IE is remembering a path where you have gone before, 
> and this won't be forgotten unless you delete your browsing history. 
> Window-Eyes, NVDA and later versions of JAWS should be able to tell you 
> what the whole URL is when you have typed the first part of it.  This is 
> just a guess, but I think it's worth pursuing, since so many others are 
> not having trouble with the site.  FireFox would be wotrking from a 
> different URL history.
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
> National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
> Library of Congress   202-707-0535
> http://www.loc.gov/nls
> The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of 
> the Library of Congress, NLS.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerald 
> Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:00 PM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Unable to Access Target.com web Site Using IE 8 
> With XP
>
>
> Actually, I can access Target.com just fine with Firefox 3.6, which pretty 
> much rules out the possibility of a virus preventing IE 8 from accessing 
> it.
>
> Gerald
>
>
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