Hi
On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:54 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Second, I bank with Bank of America and do everything on
www.bankofamerica.com. For the most part I do all right with it.
However, two issues here. Once I'm logged in and using my account
I run in to some difficulties. One of them is that the site is
designed to be very user friendly for screen readers and contains
links that say skip to main content or to skip past this section.
The links you would be skipping run down the left side of the page
and are announcements, links to banking options and things like
that. I know, I'm about to reference back to Jaws again but its
what I knew and was most comfortable with. In Jaws I could click
one of these skip to links and jump on to the next section of the
page. However, nose such luck in VO. I'm unsure of what the
problem is but when I select one of these links nothing at all
happens. The focus doesn't move to the main content or even from
that link. Any ideas?
The other difficulty I have with that same page is when I pay my
bills online. I get a page with all of my payees on it and can
enter amounts and the date to pay them. When I enter the amount to
pay by typing in to the appropriate field and go to leave the
field, rather than continuing on from that point, VO seems to go
back to the first link on the page. I'd rather have it keep going
forward from that very same spot and not need to start over at the
top of the page. I'm less than thrilled at navigation on the web
with VO and this just complicates things. Thoughts and suggestions
welcome.
I don't use bank of america, so this is just a shot in the dark. Have
you tried turning on group items in web pages in the VO utility? I
find that, with this turned on, most of the skip links do function as
intended with VO. I'm pretty much in the habit of ignoring these
though as even with Window-eyes they were none too reliable. Also,
turning on group items seems to allow VO to retain focus much better
and it won't go back to the top of the page like it normally does.
Just tried iloung and, like you, had no luck with it. I'll keep
playing with it, though, maybe try it in another browser other than
Safari just for the heck of it.
hth
