I forgot to add, that when you are scrolling the screen, don't forget to explore by touch, to be sure the link is in focus before taking action on it. Otherwise, it may not work.
Sent from my iPad > On 29 Aug 2015, at 19:43, Daniel McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you tried scrolling the screen with three fingers? Sometimes, what I > think is happening VoiceOver will not scroll the screen and by doing this > gesture, it brings that part of the screen into focus. Why not try this and > report back to see if the suggestion worked. 2015, at 18:31, Rob > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have not experienced the problem you describe. Try using the rotor >> gesture to locate the "links" item in the rotor. Then, if you have "hints" >> turned on, you should hear "double tap to activate" when you encounter a >> link on the web page. >> Rob >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Mary Otten >> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 1:04 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Links in emails don't activate >> >> Hello all, >> Yesterday, I noticed that when I double tap on the link in an email, nothing >> happened. Safari did not load. I assumed there was something wrong with the >> link, and deleted the email. The next email I got with a link gave me the >> same result when I double tap on that link to. >> I shut down the phone, restarted it, went back to the email, and then the >> link loaded fine. Today, the same thing happened with an email from Amazon >> and another email for a newsletter that I get. Once again, shutting down and >> restarting the phone enabled me to activate the links. But why? I have been >> using this phone for a year and a half now. I have never seen this problem. >> I keep my app switcher clean. I do have a few tabs open in Safari, but I try >> to keep that number down as well. Clearly, the restart is doing something. >> But why all of a sudden? Has anyone else run into this problem? 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