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[Tony Malykh]

Uhj, that sounds like a big project... I know many programming
languages, but unfortunately, JavaScript is not one of them.
GreaseMonkey is an interesting idea, I assume I could write a script
or something that would only leave the top-level comments and hide the
others. I was hoping to find a simpler solution though.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

Tony

On 9/4/17, Jim Bauer via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> What browser are you using? If you know some Javascript--and/or just want a
> new project--you might look into using a "user script manager" (such as
> Greasemonkey for Firefox) to customize comment display on the page.
>
> On 9/4/2017 6:52 PM, Tony Malykh via nfbcs wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't help in my case, since in the
>> touch-cursor mode all the comments are shown as if they are all in a
>> huge table (200+ rows) and I couldn't find any information about their
>> level. That's an interesting new way for me to browse web though.
>>
>> Is there a way in jaws to speak the CSS style of the current text
>> item? I suspect the CSS style might reflect the level of the comment.
>> Or maybe there is a way for jaws to speak the distance from the left
>> side of the browser window to the beginning of the text (offset)?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tony
>>
>> On 9/2/17, Doug Lee via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> This is a somewhat involved solution but it might work:
>>>
>>> 1. Enable the JAWS touch cursor with Shift+NumPadPlus, or the laptop
>>> layout
>>> equivalent, Shift+CapLock+Semicolon.
>>>
>>> 2. Toggle Advanced Navigation mode on using NumPad Star (the
>>> RightMouseButton key).
>>>
>>> 3. Use the four arrows to navigate the page structurally and see if you
>>> can
>>> find what you want that way.
>>>
>>> You can turn advanced navigation mode off again with the same key you
>>> used
>>> to turn it on, and disable the touch cursor by pressing the PC
>>> Cursor command twice, be it NumPad Plus or the laptop command,
>>> CapLock+Semicolon.
>>>
>>> There is also a text review mode for controls containing a lot of text:
>>> Turn
>>> that on with NumPad Slash (the LeftMouseButton key) and off with Esc.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 05:56:19PM -0700, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Many websites have tree-like structure of comments left by people. For
>>> example, reddit, hacker news, and probably a lot more websites are
>>> like this. Sometimes I would like to read some comments, but for
>>> example I would like to read only the top-level comments, and not the
>>> deeper levels, because that would be the replies to the top-level
>>> comments, and they are typically not as interesting. Is there any way
>>> to achieve this with a screen reader?
>>>
>>> So, for example, I would like to have a key combination to jump to the
>>> next same level comment. Right now I can only jump to the next comment
>>> of any level by searching a keyword ("up vote" or something, that
>>> appears next to every comment), and then I'd have to deduce in my mind
>>> what level comment is this. It is very tedious and not very pleasant.
>>>
>>> Another way that might help me would be to figure out the level of the
>>> current comment. At least I'd be able to move down through the
>>> comments without reading them and without trying to deduce its level
>>> from the contents.
>>>
>>> I'm using Jaws 17 and IE or Firefox.
>>>
>>> Any advice would be appreciated!
>>> Tony
>>>
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