True as Jaws 8 is a few years old now. I generally shop Best Buy online and don't pay much attention to their in store ads as generally the same items are on sale. Anyway, I'll also try this site. It may be true that Jaws simply isn't as accessible to this site as Window-Eyes is and so it goes and really doesn't necessarily relate to rewriting Browse Mode.
Regards, Amanda Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: Kelly Ford To: 'gwmicro' Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:17 PM Subject: RE: Accessing Best buy weekly ad This isn't a case of WE being left out as much as it is general lackof accessibility in my opinion. Those instructions are very outdated and from my experience the Flash doesn't work with any screen reader. I've left feedback to shoplocal on several occasions with no response yet. There's a link for feedback to the company in a blog posting I wrote about this last December. See http://blog.kellyford.org/archives/2008/12/disappointing_s.html. Consider giving feedback to the folks at shoplocal too. They do the online ads for a number of companies. Kelly From: Don H [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:08 AM To: Amanda Lee Cc: gwmicro Subject: Re: Accessing Best buy weekly ad As a long time user of Window Eyes I always hope that WE beats JAWS to the punch. In this case us WE users are left out to dry. ----- Original Message ----- From: Amanda Lee To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Accessing Best buy weekly ad I don't usually comment about items like this but wow what a disconnect. GW Micro and Adobe have had worked together for years. However developers of other aplications never look out of their box very often which is unfortunate. Regards, Amanda Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: Don H To: gwmicro Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:45 AM Subject: Accessing Best buy weekly ad When you go to the Best Buy home page and click on weekly ad it appears to take you to a site called shop local which is totally inaccessible with WE. It has a link for screen reader support that says the following: How to access this weekly ad site with the aid of a screen reader... Offering web solutions that are accessible is important here at ShopLocal. To best assist guests that wish to use screen reader software to access the weekly ad site, the following three easy steps need to be understood and followed: 1. ShopLocal only supports the screen reader JAWS 8.X for Windows®, from Freedom Scientific, which is the most popular screen reader worldwide. 2.To access the weekly ad site, all guests must have already installed the required Adobe Flash Player 9 browser plug-in. If you have not already, this free 1.4 MB download from Adobe is easily installed by following this link. 3. To use the JAWS screen reader with the weekly ad site most effectively, all guests must download and install a set of free scripts (ZIP file that is 88K) from the Adobe website as a one-time activity. These scripts enable some of the accessibility features of the weekly ad site and allow guests to utilize the standard JAWS keyboard shortcuts than would otherwise be possible. Please note that these scripts only work for users of JAWS 8.x and later. For more information on these add-on JAWS scripts, please visit the following help page that Adobe hosts that talks more about using Adobe Flex applications with JAWS This shop local site seems to come up on other sites as well for looking at their weekly ads as well. Could someone write scripts or some how convert these Jaws scripts so that WE will work with the site. It just isn't right that it is accessible with JAWS and not WE. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the originalsender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sendingyour message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the searchform at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. 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