Mine updates automatically... I'm using my computer and out of nowhere it will say that addblock has been updated, and I close the window and go on w/my life. -----Original Message----- From: Shai [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2016 10:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: News Sites Refreshing
Hi Brad, Thank you for that suggestion. It's in the same place on Windows10. The only option which one is unable to see with this method is that to check for updates for the application. To confirm this, I had sighted assistance to get down to the menu at the bottom of Internet Explorer and one of the choices is check for updates. If anyone can say how that choice would be accessed it would be great. Perhaps one does not even need to be concerned with that as it probably updates automatically. On 1/3/16, Brad Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a good question. I had never used it with IE, but after your > question I installed it. The best answer I can give you is to go to > Internet Explorer and visit the following address (which I guess could > be different in Windows 10--I have Windows 7): > > C:\Program Files\Adblock Plus for IE\html\templates\index.html > > That should get you to the options page. I'll try and find a more > normal way to activate this setting. > > > Brad > On 1/3/2016 11:26 PM, Shai wrote: >> Hi, >> How does one manage the options of adblock plus in Internet >> Explorer11 using JAWS17? It is set to block annoying ads and states >> that the options are on the status bar but I can not find this menu. >> I am using this with Windows10 >> >> >> On 1/3/16, Brad Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There's been a fair amount of discussion about pages refreshing. And >>> while it's true that some pages do constantly refresh (and it's >>> really annoying because JAWS gets hung up on reading the same things >>> over and over again), it's important to know whether this is >>> actually the problem you're experiencing. It may not be. >>> >>> Yes, sometimes, especially on news websites, a refresh occurs >>> periodically. The page's author can set the refresh to occur every >>> ten seconds or thirty seconds or fifteen minutes (as is more likely >>> the case). At one time JAWS used to tell you "This page will refresh >>> in 900 seconds," but I haven't heard that in so long I don't know if >>> that's still a thing. But sometimes when JAWS loses its place (and >>> its mind) it's not because the page is refreshing--at least, not the whole >>> page. >>> >>> Sometimes the problem you experience is the ads on a page changing, >>> jumping, flashing, moving, etc. In fact the ad frames in the page >>> may be refreshing while the regular content is not. This tends to >>> manifest itself in JAWS losing its place frequently, or perhaps JAWS >>> reading the same line several times as you arrow down an article, or >>> skipping a line, then going back to it. For the sighted among us, >>> you can describe the feeling this way: You're sitting at a desk >>> reading a newspaper, when somebody comes around the back of your >>> desk and yanks the paper away from you by an inch or two--not enough >>> to pull the paper off the desk, but enough to make you lose your >>> place. So you adjust, you find your spot again, and, whammo, >>> somebody else comes along and shoves the paper towards you. Again, >>> you lose focus, so you start trying to find your place while somebody else >>> shoves the paper in a different direction. >>> >>> What's happening is that the ads are different sizes, they're >>> causing everything to shift, or they're moving. For those of us who >>> are blind, we may not realize that an ad has appeared that is >>> literally obscuring the page for our sighted friends, but I'm told it >>> happens frequently. >>> They'll be reading and what they're reading gets covered up by an ad. >>> >>> I say all that to say this: I used to hate, hate, hate clicking on >>> news articles because of the frustration I experienced while trying >>> to read them, and I have a super fast computer with lots of RAM, so >>> it's not a problem of the computer getting bogged down. All that >>> changed when I installed first AdBlock, >>> <http://www.getadblock.com>and now that AdBlock no longer works with >>> Firefox, I use Adblock Plus, <http://adblockplus.org>which even has >>> a version for IE although I've only used the Firefox version. It has >>> changed my experience of reading news from all sorts of websites--TV >>> websites, newspaper websites, online news sites, everything. JAWS >>> rarely loses its place because the ads aren't jumping around the >>> screen and bumping my page back and forth. I stopped experiencing >>> crashes because of the flash ads. Honestly I can't remember the last >>> time I encountered a page that made me feel like it was truly >>> refreshing or reloading. It's very rare. A nice side benefit is I rarely >>> have to wade through countless a frames and i frames. >>> >>> Sorry that was so long, but I hope it helps some of you, both in >>> terms of understanding why JAWS is behaving the way it is, and in >>> explaining the experience to your sighted friends. >>> >>> -- >>> Brad Martin >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> My Facebook >>> page where I post online shopping coupons and deals: >>> facebook.com/ucoupons <http://www.facebook.com/ucoupons> >>> My SmarterBucks signup link <http://bit.ly/1w5FCPu> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > Brad Martin > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> My Facebook page > where I post online shopping coupons and deals: > facebook.com/ucoupons <http://www.facebook.com/ucoupons> > My SmarterBucks signup link <http://bit.ly/1w5FCPu> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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