Hi Kimsan & Steve, As Gerald stated if you open the context menu & press enter on the, Open, option, this will open stubborn links. Now, I'm not saying this will work all the time but, in the few times I've used this option it hasn't failed me, as of yet anyways! HTH
Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] how to click on link that isn't recognised as link Sometimes, if hitting Enter or Space on a link doesn't activate it, using the Open option on the Context menu will. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimsan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] how to click on link that isn't recognised as link >I will admit I am having problems like that as well but its not just jfw >15, neither. > I go to my kable companies website and there are links to click but simply > pressing enter or spacebar and performing a left mouse click works here > and there. > This morning as a matter a fact, I was on the kable company website and > using one of the methods did work but it would be so much easier if the > enter or spacebar would be fine. > I know I should note tech support my experiences, but hey, if I can't beat > them, I'll join them so I'm here to say, me to! > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 12:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] how to click on link that isn't recognised as > link > > I'm glad somebody raised this issue. Eric, I hope you follow this thread. > > For reasons that will be clearer below, I encountered the same issue while > trying to renew my prescriptions at Express-Scripts.com. I added the RX's > to my cart, but then I couldn't get Jaws to check out. There was an item > that said "four items", but no matter whether I hit enter on it, tried > left-clicking it with the Jaws cursor, used Convenient OCR, etc. I could > not get it to activate. Jaws recognized it as a Span Element, whatever > that is. > > I didn't want to send the screen to Tech Support because it would > obviously reveal medical information. But, if that is necessary to > resolve this issue, I can probably set up a reminder in my calendar and do > that in mid-February when I can add thing to the cart again. > > I was able to use System Access which recognized the "four items" as a > link. > Unfortunately, once I did that, I couldn't duplicate the issue because I > had no more prescriptions to fill. Therefore, I cannot reproduce this > issue at this time, but Express Scripts is a large mail-order pharmacy > that I'm sure fills a lot of prescriptions for others. > > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tamera" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:04 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] how to click on link that isn't recognised as > link > > >> Not sure if that is where you do an insert #3 then hit enter to activate >> link? >> Called key to pass thru? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Suey >> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 5:05 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] how to click on link that isn't recognised as link >> >> I am having a problem on some web pages where jaws isn’t recognising that >> something can be clicked on and therefore won’t activate by entering on >> it. The tab key completely skips past them too. Is there an alternative >> command to allow me to click on items like these? I am using the most >> current versions of both jaws and windows. Can anybody who may be able to >> help message me directly please so that I don’t have to traul through the >> lengthy digest to search for an answer? Thank you to anybody who can >> assist For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
