Hi Vic, It is not a solution, but when it constantly says loading, press the refresh hotkey: ins-backslash. When you get the warning: browse mode not available: try to get to the webpage field with ctrl-f6.
You can also try to re-install the internet explorer setfile from the file menu. Regards, Marten On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:56:21 -0400 <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having a lot of problems with WE 8.1, IE8 and Windows XP Pro. Before > anyone suggests updating to IE9 and Windows 7 I will say I don't have that > choice on my work computer. This will happen, but not right now. > > There are times when WE will say Downloading page and sit there for a very > long time. On occasion the page will load and there are times where it will > just sit and sit and sit. Pressing the read progress or scroll bar hot key > will say that the page is at one hundred percent or it will say no progress > or scroll bars found. If I alt+tab out of the browser and back again then the > page will load. > > There are times when using my arrow keys to read through a page WE will stop > talking. If I wait there are times when WE will come back and continue > talking. Then there are times when I need to minimize everything with the > Windows hot key then alt+tab to call IE back into the fore ground. This will > sometimes fix the problem. > > This behaviour may also happen when I tab through the elements. We will > decide to stop and I either have to wait or perform the same minimize and > call IE to the fore ground again. > > another issue is at times WE will not load the MSAA information into the > buffer. I can tab through the elements on a web page and We sluggishly reads > them, but pressing the browse mode hot key will give me the message browse > mode is unavailable. Sometimes I can call up another instance of IE and that > wakes up browse mode, however when this happens most of the time I need to > shut down We and call it up again. > > When none of the above strategies work, I need to call up another text to > speech program then stop the Window-Eyes process. > > All this is very time consuming. most of what I do here at work requires web > access to manage servers, access files via the BeeHive web interface, get > information through our internal Wiki and monitor web based alert systems. > > I don't think other text to speech programs will be significantly better and > I surely don't want to invest a lot of my time thoroughly learning a new text > to speech system in order to become more productive in the long run. The > bottom line the sooner GW Micro can address these issues the happier I will > be. > > Vic Pereira > Mid-Range Hosting / Managed Thin Client | D'hébergement de milieu de gamme / > Gestion de client léger > Economic and International Portfolio | Portefeuille économique et > international > Operations Branch | Secteur d'opérations > Shared Services Canada | Services partagés Canada > Service, Innovation, & Value | Service, Innovation, & Rentabilité > 400 St Mary Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3C 4K5 | 400, avenue St Mary, Winnipeg MB > R3C 4K5 > [email protected] > Telephone | Téléphone 204-983-0653 > Facsimile | Télécopieur 204-984-4205 > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > > > > > > > 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. 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.
