Hi all,
Annette, in addition to what other listers have suggested, try these
alternatives:
Sometimes, you may need to press insert plus f7 and click on the desired
linkfrom within the list of links to make it work.
Another solution you may try is to tab or shift tab away from the link,
then tab back to it and press enter. Remember, don't use the arrow keys,
use tab instead. Jaws uses a vertual buffer which sometimes doesn't
interact properly with some of the webpage elements.
Hope that helps!
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On 28/05/2012 02:47, Annette Carr wrote:
This is what I am already doing, but I'd like to know why I have to do this
and if there is a way that I can go back to just pressing enter on the link.
Annette
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kerryn gunness
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Cannot activate some links in I.E. 8
u can try, navigating to the link, press application key, arrow down to open
in new window and press enter, that link would open in a new i e window.
Kerryn Gunness
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Carr"<[email protected]>
To:<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:16 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Cannot activate some links in I.E. 8
Hi All,
I have been finding a number of websites in which I am unable to activate
the links on that page. When I hear JAWS announce that I am on a link, I
press the Enter key. In more and more situations, nothing happens. I
have
tried using the applications key and have found that Open is not a choice
on
the menu until I have attempted at least once to use the Enter key to
activate the link without success. So the sequence looks like this:
. Navigate to the desired link
. Activate the application menu and find that open is not on the
menu.
. Press Escape to close the applications menu.
. Ensure that I am really on the link.
. Press the Enter key to try and activate the link.
. If nothing happens, activate the applications key.
. Select Open, Open in new tab or Open in new window, and then
press
the Enter key.
. The link is now activated and the new page is opened.
I am using I.E. 8, Office 2010, and JAWS 12 on a Windows7 64bit computer.
I've even tried JAWS 11. I have not gotten around to trying JAWS 13.
Does anyone have any ideas to why this is happening? Is it a JAWS issue,
an
I.E. issue or a Security setting? Is there a way to change it?
Thanks,
Annette
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