So I'm constantly in the Goodreads website, adding books to my shelves, rating them, reviewing them, etc. With JAWS 15 and the latest version of NVDA, I can easily rate books, since the stars show up and are easily selected as links by these other screen readers.
It doesn't matter whether I use Firefox or IE 11, I get the same tragically silent results with Window-Eyes. My steps are: 1. Search for the book and find the right title. 2. Arrow down to hear Window-Eyes say "rate this book." That's where it all goes to Hades. I route the pointer to those words, even move the pointer down with Control+Shift+Insert+Down Arrow in small increments, and I hear nothing about the rating stars. I'm not trying to whine here, but I am curious about why I can hear those stars in NVDA and JAWS 15, but not WE 8. I guess someone is going to write me and say just use one of those, what's the big deal. Well, I truly am partial to WE and would prefer not to shut it down every time I visit that particular site. I get that in the grand scheme of things, this is lower than the lowest priority for the developers. After all, I won't lose my livelihood if I can't access the ability to rate a book in Goodreads. If I'm somehow in error, I'd love to know how so I can fix that behavior. This seems like the perfect instance to use the hotspot app, but I can't get any verbal feedback from WE to do that. 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.
