[nfbcs] Trouble with Google

Denise Robinson deniserob at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 21:14:39 UTC 2013


I always do an insert tab to find out exactly where I am before moving or doing anything...then if it is not where I want alt tab back to the page I want...insert t will tell u in general where u r at and insert tab will tell u exactly where u are at

Denise M Robinson
Sent from my iPad

On Feb 23, 2013, at 10:48 AM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> Tracy:
> 
> In part, losing focus is a windows problem, not a JAWS problem. I'm not
> letting JAWS off the hook entirely but given the complexity of software
> these days, it's becoming harder and harder to know definitively what ought
> to have focus.
> 
> Mike Freeman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:50 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Trouble with Google
> 
> Thanks Nicole.
> I recently went from Jaws 7 to Jaws 14.  Some things are better, but Jaws 14
> 
> seems to lose focus a lot, and that's not good.
> Tracy
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nicole Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Trouble with Google
> 
> 
>> Before you click on the link the first time, try refreshing the screen 
>> with
>> JAWS key escape. Because of the way that JAWS works, it is possible to 
>> click
>> on something besides what JAWS says you are clicking on.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
>> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 10:32 AM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Trouble with Google
>> 
>> Lately, when I search something on Google, and I find what I want and 
>> click
>> on it, what I get is "Search results for" whatever I searched for, and a
>> bunch of ad links.  Then I can't get back to the results I actually 
>> wanted,
>> and have to close IE, go back to Google, and do my search again.  Second
>> time, I click on the same link as I did the first time, but second time I
>> get the info I wanted, and not the ads.  Last time this happened, I heard
>> Jaws say "redirect" as it went off to show me ads I didn't want.
>> Do I have some setting wrong?  Is this some new "feature" of Google?  If 
>> so,
>> how do I turn it off?
>> I am using IE8, with Jaws 14, if it matters.
>> Tracy
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> nfbcs mailing list
>> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> nfbcs:
>> 
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/ntorcolini%40wavecable.co
>> m
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> nfbcs mailing list
>> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> nfbcs:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/carcione%40access.net
>> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nfbcs mailing list
> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/k7uij%40panix.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nfbcs mailing list
> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/deniserob%40gmail.com




More information about the NFBCS mailing list