[nfbcs] web browser problem?

[Tracy Carcione]

Mike, are you saying you see links in the descriptions of TV listings?  I 
wondered if it was the craze for putting ads everywhere, or just my problem.

I don't think my Google problem is random ads, because I point to the link I 
want before entering, and I've tried insert-escape or insert-tab to be sure 
Jaws is seeing what it's saying. Unless Google is randomly taking over.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] web browser problem?


> tracy:
> These links are not a problem. It is current fashion to make a link be 
> only part of a sentence. Contrary to current thinking, it is the sighted, 
> not the blind, who have problems with object permanence. They can't 
> remember where their backarrow or scroll keys are. Thus, they usually want 
> to sea links both at top and bottom of page. The paradigm of one link 
> equals one line is far in the cyberpast.
> As for your Google problem. I suspect the page is drawn differently and 
> dynamically each time you do a search. Until the Internet goes back to 
> having NSF run the backbone, which, I suspect will be never, we are stuck 
> with randomly-placed ads and their whole reason for being is *not* to be 
> easily ignored which they could be were their page placement predictable.
> Ah, free enterprise!
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2013, at 7:30, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, or what to do about it.  I have 
>> been having a problem with Google, where, the first time I get results 
>> and choose a link, I get a bunch of ads instead of what I want.  The 
>> second time I try, I get the link I want.  This is despite using various 
>> ways to be sure I'm actually on the link I think I am, recommended by 
>> this list before.  I think it is something called "click&jump".  Anyway, 
>> I disabled 3rd party cookies, and installed Spybot Search & Destroy, 
>> which hunted out a number of minor threats. The problem persists, but not 
>> as bad.
>> My question is this:
>> When I go to a website, I see a lot of what seem to me to be extra links, 
>> which I bet would go to ads, if I clicked on them.
>> For example, on NFB Newsline Online, at the bottom, there is a bit that 
>> says "contact by phone:" and the number.  For me, "phone" is a separate 
>> link. This doesn't seem right, and it makes reading pages kind of a pain, 
>> since there are a lot of lines with these odd links.
>> Another example is, if I'm reading the TV listings on Newsline, and, say, 
>> the show description says "the team investigates an insurance salesman 
>> who may be a serial killer", "insurance" will be a link.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and if it's a problem, and, if 
>> so, what to do about it?
>> Thanks.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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