This has been the case, ever since the new Browse mode was introduced. And it happens on that many sites, that it would be strange to imagine that I would be the only one struggling wwith the following issue. My browser is set to automatically maximize any window, and hitting Ctrl-Shift-T does confirm the window to be fully maximized.
I would be reading a arbitrary website. It could be a newspaper article, it could be an article on Wikipedia, it might be a product page of some store, or it could be an advertisement on Ebay. Most cases all the text will come through, and my reading is just fine. But all the sudden, the screen reader cuts off the last character of each line. This is annoying, to say the least, and could even lead to quite misinterpretted text comprehension. There is, for instance, a big difference if a product costs $165, or only $16 - all depending on whether the screen reader will acknowledge the last character on the line. I even have seen several cases, where the page mainly reads just fine, and only certain sections of the page have their characters cut off. Every time a new version of WE is released, I hope for the lost character issue to have been fixed. But so far, unfortunately the characters still go for their lunch and holiday, anywhere in cyberspace. With the more sofisticated speech synthesizers, a word with its last character may be mispronounced, but you could live with that (somehow). But other synthesizers, like the AT&T ones, will start spelling out words that are not recognized as correctly spelled. Needless to tell you all, it is eardropping and annoying, and definitely does not speed up productivity having to guess every word that happens to end any line in a more lengthy article. Why does the new Browse mode do this kind of character cutting? Any reason for it not to have been addressed yet? I already stated that it happens this often, totally cross-domain, that it puzzles me if noone else have seen the behavior. For whatever that might be worth, I mainly use the latest version of Firefox, and have for all the time of the new Browse mode, even long before that. Yet, the few times I am in Internet explorer, I seem to remember the issue showing up there as well, so would hold nothing against one browser over the other. The issue does not exactly make my screen reader much reliable - the way I understand the term "reliable". Hope this can be addressed, and fixed before next release of the screen reader. Anyone having any experience if this behavior would be the case with any of the other screen readers on the market? -- David _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
