Hello,
Just wanted to report a couple of issues that I've noticed with
Window Eyes with web browsing:
With Internet Explorer version 8:
Firstly there seem to be issues with Google, specifically after
doing a search, for some reason browse mode doesn't come back on. It
can be enabled with the usual command, however it's the only site which
doesn't seem to bring browse mode back on after entering a search string.
More difficult to identify however is a strange issue which seems
to affect Internet Explorer where when the browser is first opened it
just hangs, yet opening a second instance of it may work just fine.
I've tried resetting it in the advanced tab under internet options, as
well as using C-Cleaner to remove extra files, as well as clearing
personal data. The issue persists, yet with other screen readers it
doesn't seem to happen. This does not seem to be a problem with Firefox.
With Mozilla Firefox latest version:
I switched to Firefox full time after having the unsolvable hanging
problem with Internet Explorer. However with Firefox, there seems to be
issues with staying in forms for entering text. For example if I'm
trying to enter a word in to Google it keeps dropping me back in to
browse mode every time I press the space bar. I've had to use notepad
to type out my search string and then paste it in to the browser. I'm
not sure which is more annoying.
With either browser:
When trying to arrow arrow around in edit boxes on web pages in
both Internet Explorer or Firefox, Window Eyes just makes a ding sound
when trying to review text entered. It is necessary to drop back in to
browse mode to review what's been entered and then re-enter the edit box
and re-position the cursor to where one wants to correct something based
on best guess, or by cutting the text to notepad and editing it there.
Does anyone have any experience with these problems to either
confirm or deny them? Also and more importantly, does anyone know of
work-arounds to these issues?
Thanks,
Cory
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