Well works here every time. when you get thrown back try a refresh then try the #j combo.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam bushman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:00 AM To: David; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: window eyes support for HTML 5 canvas element What Aaron wants us to do it set a place marker on that link before you clicked on it. But,after you click back and get tossed to the top fo the page ... is to see if the number-j will actually jump you right back to that link. For me, it doesn't work. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Sam bushman" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:52 AM Subject: Re: window eyes support for HTML 5 canvas element > Oh, yes! I am fully capable of knowing, what he is after. Have actually > been following this conversation, mainly, to see if there is a work > around. Right at this moment, I cannot give you a specific webpage, that > causes the problem, but will gladly tell you the following: > > QUITE A FEW webpages, actually, are giving the headache. The GW homepage, > may not be the right one to test it on, as it is an accessible and nice > page. But many other pages seem to not give you the right possition, when > returning to it. OK, Sam (I think it was him), told you about ALT-TABbing > back and forth. Let me add on the Page-Back function. Try for instance, go > to EBay, then do a search for whatever product, and scroll down the list. > When you find one that you want - let's say item number 10 on the list - > and then press enter, you are taken to the ad of that product. So far, > Yes, everything is perfect. BUT! Now, try to press either the Backspace > key, or the ALT-LEFT ARROW, to go back to the prior page, and see what > will happen. In MOST of the cases, you are ending up at the very top of > the page, and have to search your way down the list again, till you hit > the product you just looked at, before you can even go on looking for the > next item(s). OK, YES, you can press the V key, to find your visited > links, but there are a few of them, and what if you have been looking at > ten different items on the list? > > You told us, that there has been certain fixes to the browse mode, in > 7.01, if I got you right. OK, great. But I think that the capability to > STAY IN LINE, where you were last time you visited a page, has got somehow > broken. The above example is just one, that was no problem back in 6.1; > and as it is not 100% consistent, I suspect, it is a matter of an > 'upgrade' in the browse mode, in WE7.01. > > OK, this is when you were actually at a link. What if you are in the > middle of a text? Yes, Placemarkers are great, and I use them a lot. But > they call for a relatively permanent, and distinct, text or object. If you > are at a newspaper site, for instance, and you have been reading the first > 25 lines, of an article holding maybe 57 lines, you well can press > CTRL-SHIFT-K, to make up a placemarker. But what are you to put into the > field for the placemarker? If the article is about the Cathrina Hurricane, > putting that term into your 'search field' is no help, as most truely the > writer has been using this term ttwenty times, throughout the article. And > as Sam said, if you are back and forth, a few times, you end up with a > good handful of placemarkers, to scroll through, so as to find your last > position. In my example, given above, what you are saying about > placemarkers, would mean, that before I press ENTER, on an item I want to > read more about (on the EBay list), I will have to define a placemarker on > that position in the list, then go ahead and read about the product, > returning to the list of product, I can always hope for the placemarker to > take me back to where I left the list... Hopefully! :) > > One suggestion, which you might even be able to implement in 7.1, since it > is not out yet, could be something like this: As the user scrolls down a > page, in browse mode, could there be a variable (in the WE software), that > kept track of the exact position the user - at any time - is at, on that > particular page. OK, this is software tech talk, but very basically spoken > , it would keep track of the exact X and Y coordinates, where the cursor > is at any time, and next time you are on that screen, it would take you > there. I used the Webformator, from Audiodata, with my old screenreader, > and it was able to keep track of this kind of things. > > OK, as I said, I have noticed that WE7.01, is less good at taking you back > to the point where you were, than what was the case of 6.1. Not sure why, > but it is surely a headache, to have to scroll down half the page, just to > refind your last point. > > Hopes this helps. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Aaron Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Sam bushman" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:31 PM > Subject: Re: window eyes support for HTML 5 canvas element > > >> On 5/28/2009 11:16 AM, Sam bushman wrote: >>> Well, first how that helps me get speech back when I alt-tab back. >> >> I was not aware that you were losing speech. I was under the impression >> that you were just losing your position in browse mode. >> >>> So you want me before I alt-tab away to do this: >> >> There are a few different ways to do it, but, yes. Sure, it's a bit more >> work, but as I mentioned, it's temporary, and a workaround. But if this >> isn't even the problem you're having, then it's all moot. >> >>> If you have an easier way ... please help me with step by step. >> >> Are we sure this isn't something specific to your machine? I just >> launched OE, opened a message, arrowed down a few lines, launched IE, >> went to gwmicro.com, arrowed down a few lines, and am able to alt-tab >> back and forth, never losing speech, and always staying on the same line >> that I left. The only thing I notice is that, sometimes, when I go back >> to the GW page, I hear "Downloading page," but then I down arrow, and I'm >> right where I left off. >> >> Are others able to duplicate what Sam has reported? >> >> Aaron >> >> -- >> To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past >> correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information >> pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW >> Micro Technical Support Team. >> >> Aaron Smith >> GW Micro >> Phone: 260/489-3671 >> Fax: 260/489-2608 >> WWW: http://www.gwmicro.com >> FTP: ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com >> Technical Support & Web Development >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. 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