On 1/17/10, Cheree Heppe <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > The following explanation might not help anyone and may make the techies > cringe, but, well .... > > I navigate in BookShare dot org and do it with a Windows NetBook running > Windows Home. I'm using Firefox. > > I have BookShare in my bookmarks and go to it by selecting the specific > bookmark. That gets me to the site once Mozilla Firefox loads. > > I am not that facile with the Window-Eyes controls, so, I settle on the > first link in BookShare and press the page down key once. This puts me one > link below the link for browse, so I move up there and enter on the browse > link. > > Okay, it's primitive, all you techies, but I get there. > > Then, I tap the pagedown button once and tab about four times to new books > and browse those once it opens. > > Window-eyes uses MSAA Mode, I think. So, when I have to get on the edit > boxes and enter something, I get to where the speech says "edit box" and tap > the enter key once. It says browse mode on or off or whatever it says. > > I just type my search criteria in there and hit enter and it goes to it. > > Pretty primitive, agreed, but it's a workable way for me. > > Can you use a speech synthesizer to assist you in locating the edit boxes > and check what's in those? > > Sometimes, a multi-pronged method works better. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Wolfe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:44 PM > Subject: navigation in Bookshare.org issues > > >> To list, >> >> >> I'm having troubles in general navigating in the Bookshare.org >> website. Iwill sign in right? Then, I go to quick search and my >> fiance, who can see better than me tells me that the border gets >> thicker or whatever when she clicks the edit box right? Well, I click >> it there is no text shown in the edit box and no results. Sometimes it >> asks me to sign back in. I decided to read the damned books in HTML >> because there is no other real viable alternative unless you want to >> pay thousands for a Braille display right? What are your thoughts >> about this matter? >> >> -- >> Peter Q. Wolfe, A.S. >> webmaster >> http://www.darkstruggle.com >> [email protected] >> alternative e-mail >> [email protected] >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >> your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >> your 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 search >> form at the bottom of the page. >> >> If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to >> [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body >> of the message. >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 270.14.145/2626 - Release Date: 01/16/10 > 07:35:00 > >
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