Admittedly, I have not been too eager on using these hotkeys to swap the tabs. Main reason is, that you only get to the first 10 tabs that way, and often I might have more tabs than that open. But your point is valid enough, I might trry the Ctrl-Number swapping, next time the behavior occurs. Still, it does not exactly explain why the behavior shows up, so really would have loved a fix of the matter. But it is of course worth to try for a temporary workaround. Thanks for the input.
David On 9/21/2016 6:33 PM, Kevin Huber wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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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