Hi David: Have you tried the shortcut keys control-1 to get to tab 1, control-2 to get to tab 2, and so on?
Kevin Huber On 9/21/16, David via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote: > I am struggling a quite annoying, and even puzzling issue. Memory tells > me this has been the case ever since WE9 came out, but I am not able to > determine exactly time it all started. It could happen any time, with > any webpage in a multi-session of the browser. I am going to explain it > in illustrative terms, and hopefully the others on the list may have > seen the same behavior, that it could be traced to a point where things > get fixed. Definitely, this behavior was not the case under the old > Browse Mode, and still, I do not have a good explanation on why it would > be the case in the new one either. > > My main browser is Firefox. I like to run several webpages > simultaneously, in each their tab, since it gives me a quick way to swap > between them and do my comparisons. > > OK, so let us imagine you have three different webstores, and we name > them Stor1, Store2 and Store3. I scroll through store1, and whenever I > find a product of interest, I open its dedicated website in a new tab. > We could do this with four products, for the illustration. > > I now open Store2 in another tab, and here also open four individual > product sites in each their tab. And, you guess it, we do the same with > Store3. All in all, we now sit with something between 10 and 15 > websites, in each their tab. Benefit is, that you simply by hitting > Ctrl-Tab, or Ctrl-Shift-Tab, can move back and forth between the tabs, > and quickly do all your comparing on both price and specifications. Or, > you could do the same with study material, where you need to compare and > pick out pieces of information from several pages simultaneously. > > So far, everything is working well. And for a good portion of the time, > I can swap between the different pages with no issue. But all the > sudden, without any good reason, things get messed up. > > Say I am in tab6, which hold a website from Store2. I want to go back to > Tab5, which still holds another product from Store2. So I hit > Ctrl-Shift-Tab once, and expect to land on Tab5. If I check the address > line, or even go to the tab list of Firefox, sure I am reported to be on > Tab5, holding the desired website from Store2. > > Problem is, that when I arrow up and down the page, my screen reader > reads information from a totally different tab. It could for instance be > that it reads the text and links of Tab1, which holds a site from > Store1. As you may imagine, this causes trouble, since I cannot get to > the tab I intended to. > > I have tried to swap back and forth between the tabs, using the Ctrl-Tab > method, the Ctrl-PageUp/-Down mehtod, or even gone to the Tab-list of > the browser and chosen the desired tab. It all results in the same > strange behavior. My browser seem to display one tab, whereas my screen > reader reads the info off another tab. I even have tried to Alt-Tab away > from the browser and back, to get the thing synchronized, but to no > avail. the only thing I have found to work, would be to press the F5-key > on the current tab, to have the browser update it. But doing so, I loose > the last position I was on, and can start reading the page all over again. > > Well, when the new browse mode came out, it was claimed to be realtime, > that is, it no longer should work in a copy of the browser screen. If it > is all that realtime, then why does it not synchronize with what is on > the screen? If the browser reports to me that it is showing Tab7, why is > my screen reader then reading info from Tab11? Or, Tab3? I go to Tab9, > browser reports Tab9 to be active and displaye - Yes, I Want Tab9 To Be > Read By My Screen Reader As Well. > > Why is this behavior? And can anyone else confirm to see the same? > > I have tried to clean out my system, removing all trash cookies. I have > cleaned up any stuff with AntiVirus and Anti-Malware programs. The > Websites I open might be as different as from Ebay, Walmart and > Wikipedia; or any other thinkable combination. Even if I only open > numerous sites from one and same main page, the tab-mess gets in here > every now and then. Since it happens in all kinds of cases, cross many > different domains, I am ready to say it has nothing to do with the > construction of the website itself. And like I stated, I never saw the > behavior under the old Browse Mode. > > > > -- > 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/huber.kevin7%40gmail.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 > _______________________________________________ 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. 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