I have noted this behavior since Jaws 16, very annoying especially if one is using arrows while reading display, I read left-handed, long story, and am a very dominant right-handed person. Tab key is on the left and that hand, especially if trying to order something is often on the display. Jaws 17 can occasionally drive me mad when I hear "edit" and then start to type and hear no ... present. Just have to get used to pressing enter first, or using the tab key, or changing a setting which could make other things not work as intended. However, I have thought I was on an order link, display shows I am as well as Eloquence, press enter and find myself in a totally different place, sometimes unable to go page back, either get JAWS lockup and can't do anything, or get a webpage error, and have to try to exit everything or just turn off the computer. Annoying to say the least, although in 17 I note the wrong link is less of a problem than it was in 16.
Rose Combs [email protected] A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John M. Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 6:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] jaws activating wrong link why? I have encountered this behavior in Jaws for years. It happens to me more in Firefox than IE, but it happens in both. The best way that I have found to circumvent the problem is to TAB to the link and then activate it, instead of navigating to the link with the cursor keys. When using FF, I always TAB to a link before activating. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimsan" <[email protected]> To: "'jaws-users'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:31 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] jaws activating wrong link why? > I'm not sure if it's after the windows 10 update, or after I made changes > in > the quick setting which I don't remember what the changes were; however, > here is the skinny. > > > > Let's say there are two links I am passing by, about and contact us. I > click contact us and the about page opens. > > The only way I can get the right link to launch is listing the links, tab > to > move to link, then activate link. That is to much just to read a page > lol, > thoughts? > > Windows 10, jaws 16 and IE 11. > > > > 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/
