Well, the reality is, folks are putting out web pages with these wildly long
alpha/numeric links in them. So if there would be a way for a sscreen
reader to use read to end and avoid reading links, that would make read to
end more useful. It's precisely why I stop the reading of a web page with
the control key, even with my settings to read the first 24 lines, because I
know I can more efficiently navigate the page with the x key and other
commands. If I could just hear the text without the link and buttons, etc.
I'd allow the read to end to auto read the page when it first loads. Check
out newspaper sites for a wild reading session with read to end working for
instance.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farley, John [OS-IE]" <[email protected]>
To: "Steve Zielinski" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: Suggestion for WE Improvement
Hi
I don't think that this is a screen reader issue.
It is the author not using alt-tags correctly. If they did so, the words
in the alt-tag would be read rather than the full text of the link. The
screen reader will read that if that is the only thing it has.
So, contact the authors.
Regards, John.
John Farley
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve
Zielinski
Sent: 04 February 2011 16:06
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Suggestion for WE Improvement
Good idea. I find I never use read to end on web pages, for instance,
just
because of those long tedious links. Rather, I down arrow as I read,
and
when I hear link, I immediately down arrow again to find real text. If
there were a way to exclude links, buttons, etdc while reading with read
to
end, I'd use it much more. Of course, if one could select the types of
missing links, excuse the pun, or say skip buttons while reading, or
skip
combo boxes, etc. that would make things much more flexible.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Gosselin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:20 AM
Subject: Suggestion for WE Improvement
I have just finished reading, actually I got sick of listening and
quit,
another
of those newsletter-type things that are totally awash in links, very
long
links! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to exclude the reading of those
links in
a document while in Read-to-end? I sure wish it were possible! Then,
if I
were
curious, I could stop and explore for a link I thought might be there,
and
only
then click on it without all that very annoying gibberish of letters,
numbers,
punctuation marks, odd symbols, Great God, sometimes they're right in
the
middle
of a sentence! Lord have mercy!
Louis Gosselin
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