[nfbcs] web browser problem?

Fri Apr 19 16:48:04 UTC 2013

If you want to do an easy option for finding pertinent information, when
you open your browser and do a search, just hit h for headings to easily
move thru each major heading. When you find a heading you want, down arrow
to listen to see if it truly is a page you want to go to. If so, then shift
h back up to the heading and enter to open it
That system will bypass all those dynamic page changes with ads all over
Denise

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>wrote:

> 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>
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>  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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