Sandy, I hesitated to respond because I don't have a lot of information, but in case this is helpful, I have a couple ideas.
I too frequently get "Browse mode is not available" messages. When this occurs, it seems as if I am stuck outside the body of the page, perhaps in the toolbar section. Sometimes-and only sometimes-repeated tabbing moves me down to an area that then seems to somehow allow the page to continue to load.. But, yes, absolutely, I frequently encounter pages that just don't seem to load. It happens with Google and with other pages. It's not just pages I haven't visited previously. Refreshing the page with F5 might help. It seems to sometimes. Turning browse mode off and then on again might help, but I'm not sure there's a cause and effect relationship to that-or to anything else I'm doing. I don't know of any way to tell if it's Window Eyes or the browser, although my sighted colleagues do not report this behavior and their systems are essentially similar to mine and run on the same network, just without Window Eyes. I've wondered if virus scanning and checking has anything to do with this. We use Symantec at the office. I use Nod32 at home. The behavior occurs on both home and office systems. Try tabbing through the page to see if there's a location there that will allow the page to load. Try refreshing with F5. Try turning browse mode on and then on again. You may have already been doing all of these, but there's what I know, in case any of it helps. Also, I too have turned the announcement back on. It's far easier to understand the mode that way. I wonder if GW might offer a combination of click and bell sound. Perhaps a bell and click for off and then click and bell for on. I'm suggesting a quiet, subtle sound, even at that. That might help. Richard Petty ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization [email protected] (E-Mail) From: Sandy Finley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 8:37 PM To: 'info mailling list gw' Subject: Browse Mode Problems:; Don't know if it's window-Eyes based When I enter web gages in IE 9, WE often does not go into Browse mode. I have to press the hot key and only then do I hear a"browse on." (Yes, I have it speaking the words instead of those clicks.) I have the same problem when jumping to another page. Sometimes I even get the message that browse mmode is not avaiilable. I am running Windows 7 AND WINDOW-Eyes 8. Sandy 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
