I actually don't use Google pages for search at all. If you set your
default search provider to Google in IE you can use ctrl-e to immediately
bring up a search edit box. In Firefox the key is ctrl-k and Google is the
default engine. I feel lucky by bypassing unnecessary pages.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Kingston" <[email protected]>
To: "Gwmicro gw-info mail list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: Window-Eyes 8.1 and Google
And for anyone who doesn't want the hassle of the bloated Google site and
just wants to use their search engine you can use:
http://www.google.com/accessibility/labs/search/
It is a very simple uncluttered page. And the accessibility tag has
nothing to do with screen-reader accessibility. It was designed years ago
when many web sites were written for specific browsers. That was the
accessibility problem. It's no longer officially supported, but it's a
very simple and clean easy to use Google search page.
Hth,
Tom
On 2/23/2013 3:00 PM, Steve Jacobson wrote:
Peter,
I do not mean to make light of your frustrations, but I just read a note
on another list where someone was having trouble getting JFW to focus
correctly on Google and switched to Window-Eyes because it
worked better. It seems to me that there are some rough edges just now
with all screen readers. I have not noticed any particularly difference
with Google and WE 8.1, but I'm still using IE 8. Did you use the
screen readers link on Google to turn off some of the dynamic updating?
Window-Eyes 8.1 isn't perfect but it fixed some things for me that make
it worth using. It would seem worth it to try to see if these other
problems can be resolved for you with a simple change. What kinds of
problems did you encounter, and what version of Internet Explorer were
you using?
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:40:38 -0500, Peter Duran wrote:
I restored my system back to Window-Eyes 8.0; there are too many
problems with window-Eyes 8.1 and Google to be useful. Hopefully the
next rev will be tested more fully before release.
Peter Duran
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