[NFBCS] Using JAWS to Scroll through Text in the Middle of a Web Page

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings and felicitations:

 

I have and continue to be a long-time user of JAWS. I believe I have more
than twenty years of experience with this program. Of late, I have come
across websites which require the user to scroll through something like a
service agreement which is positioned somewhere in the middle of a web page.
The idea is that the text of the agreement needs to be scrolled through (in
theory, read) while the text around the agreement remains static. A specific
example is the agreement you are required to read when you establish an
automatic pre-payment with T-Mobile. After you read past the agreement text,
there is a line which says something like "scroll pending". When I came
across this type of construction, I could not find any way, using JAWS, to
scroll to the end of the agreement text. Unless or until I did reach the end
of the text, the system prevented me from pressing a Continue button.

 

I was annoyed and more than a little frustrated that I had to secure some
sighted help to do this rather trivial but nevertheless daunting task. Has
anyone on this list encountered a similar website construction?

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Cordially,

 

Curtis Chong