I’ve done pretty well with IE 11, but I’ve noticed a problem I didn’t have, or at least didn’t notice with IE 10. First, some pages like Audible for example do not keep proper focus when I do things like use home, end, page up and page down. I can be in the middle of a page and then decide to go back to the top, hit home and hear top of page and then when I start tabbing through links, II find myself exactly where I was before moving to the top of the page. If I use the arrow keys, things go as they should, it is as if I am in two places on the page at the same time depending on how I decide to navigate. Not a earth shaking problem, but still quite annoying, particularly on pages where I have habitual navigation patterns that get interrupted by this issue.
The second, and, IMO more severe issue is that I find that I now get stuck in a lot of pages. It seems to happen most on pages with a lot of objects like youtube videos and all of the controls that come with that, tweets posted in the middle of an article and other such objects. When I run into this, I find that, when trying to read the content just around the object I am stuck in a loop, only able to arrow through a certain number of lines of text over and over again. Getting to the rest of the text is difficult or impossible, I have to page down to get away from the loop and often miss text since moving back up simply gets me back into the loop. I am including a link to an article at TMZ that is a good example of this. I can get to the first clip and play it, but whether I have played the clip or not on the current visit to the page, I can only get to a couple of lines beyond the controls for the clip, paging down takes me to the next clip at the end of the story and I can navigate up via arrow keys and read a couple of lines of the text of the story before getting into the loop again. http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/13/movie-trailer-voice-hal-douglas-dead/ I run into this with a lot of stories I go to on this site, luckily I don’t read a whole lot of their stories, but I also encounter it often on sites like Cnet and a lot of the Gawker sites like Gizmodo, IO9, and Lifehacker. Something about the Gawker sites makes them difficult and tricky to read with Window Eyes anyway, and I haven’t been able to participate in commenting on these sites since a major redesign a couple of years ago and many objects they include in their stories do not even appear to Window Eyes (I generally get stuck in the loop on things like embedded tweets and such since I don’t think a single video clip controls object embedded in one of their articles has been visible to Window Eyes for me in something like three or four years), add in getting stuck in these loops, even just from time to time, and it makes these sites that I truly enjoy reading frustrating enough for me to move from a daily reader to a rare user. On a side note, I am not sure if these loops are a problem in Firefox. So far, most of the sites that I have these problems with actually have more issues in Firefox, or at least did with the last version. I haven’t checked since the last major update, but after many disappointments I haven’t rushed out to chek it out with each new update. For example, the Gawker sites with Firefox display virtually every control that exists in the page code, including administrative controls that should be invisible to the standard user. The controls don’t do anything, attempts to use even the one’'s a reader can use like comment controls only work sporadically and the mess of extra edit boxes and buttons make the articles difficult to navigate. OK, sorry about all of the extra complaints, I only meant to address the two problems that are new to me with IE 11, but these other issues have been bothering me for a long time so it is hard not to vent about them when discussing the other problems with the pages. Anyway, if anyone knows of any settings changes that might fix any of these issues, I would love to know. I would love to bring the accessibility issues to the attention of the sites with the issues beyond the two main ones I meant to discuss, but TMZ doesn’t seem to really care and I have yet to be able to find a way to contact the Gawker technical people to let them know that there are issues with their sites. Thanks, Chris 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.
