[blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7
Dennis Clark
dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 22 20:09:50 UTC 2010
Hi John,
Gail posted a modified google option yesterday and it looks pretty good. It
is similar to the old one which ended with /IE. The new address is:
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Actually it looks a little better then our old one because this gives a line
or so of text from the site. Let me know what you think.
Best,
Dennis
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> Does anyone know of a text based search site?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Bryan Schulz
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 1:51 PM
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> hi,
>
> relax, it was a one day 30th anniversary celebration of the release of the
> pacman game.
> hopefully it will disappear soon.
> if you are good, you can jump to the search box quickly and type in your
> search and start getting results before the game automatically starts. you
> could have also used yahoo instead.
>
> Bryan Schulz
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
> To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:05 AM
> Subject: [blindlaw] Google home page is wrecking IE 7
>
>
>> Hello, I used Internet Explorer 7 because I have JAWS 8 and yesterday
>> Google
>> put a game on its main page which was pacman. This froze Internet
>> Explorer
>> 7, I had to upgrade to IE 8 to get work done. Not only that but I use
>> Adobe InDesign and it placed an image of the game into my InDesign
>> document,
>> and that image was not on th epage I was working on, it just loaded it
>> into
>> the document. It was lucky I found it. So this thing is invasive and it
>> slows down the Internet. So everyone seemed to like the game but it just
>> annihilated productivity and it disabled the computer, everything got
>> slow. I kno wit was Google who did this, but to me the effect was exactly
>> like a virus. But everyone was happy with the game so it didn't show up
>> in
>> the press as an internet threat.
>>
>> The game is still up.
>>
>> Also I was in a restaurant the other day and had a screen reader going
>> to demonstrate a process and it was a bit noisy in the restaurant but
>> I did not have the volume up that much but people were infuriated that
>> I had this thing going. It was not that loud, people were definitely
>> drowning out the noise but it as continuously speaking and I can see
>> how it would annoy people. I turned it off but it was a matter of
>> one guy who was making off
>> hand remarks about beating me up that I thought was a bit extreme. Never
>> had
>> that happen before.
>>
>> The screen reader was going along speaking continuously and yes it
>> kept droning on about the page contents, well you know what they do.
>> Anyway have you all encountered anything like this, or was this ust an
>> extreme moment?
>>
>> James
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