Yes, I have noticed all the same issues you report. I think it also has
to do with the acessibility features of the coding of the page, but
that's a pure guess since I have no expertese in that area.
On 12/21/2014 2:50 AM, Chris wrote:
Has anyone else noticed this? Window Eyes beta 2 is often not speaking
the first link encountered when I navigate to a heading, table or list
and start down arrowing or tabbing. For example, at Amazon, I navigate
to the heading Amazon Prime to click on the link that will filter out
all non Prime eligible items. If I arrow or tab past it and then up
arrow or shift tab back, it reads fine. If the first link is the first
item in a heading or other group, like search results in Google, the
links will be read. But in these cases, arrowing through the items
doesn’t read the link. If I down or up arrow through the search
results I only get URLs when encountering links. I think they are the
URLs corresponding to the links read when navigating by heading, but
have not tried clicking on one to try. I have been experiencing a
major tendency of Window Eyes to read URLs instead of links pretty
much all of the time since beta 1, I get the link read by arrowing or
tabbing off and back on the link. Perhaps the latter Google issue is
part of that problem. If so, Google is actually performing better
since this only occurs with navigating with arrow keys while
everywhere else, it happens with use of arrow keys and tab.
With the URL reading issue I have tried turning off reading of tool
tips with no effect. Perhaps another setting is responsible, but I
don’t know what setting that might be.
Neither of these are major bugs. They are more irritants than anything
else, but I am still hoping that they might be fixed or that I might
figure out the right setting to change. I have had mixed results
fixing minor annoyances by changing settings. I still haven’t been
able to figure out a way to get tables read the way I preferred them
read with past versions of Window eyes. I cant get it to read “table
1”, “table 2” and so on as I navigate instead of “table 3 rows 2
columns” or whatever number of rows and columns.
Anyway, I am really liking a lot of the changes so far and am looking
forward to the release version. I just am still hoping that, in
addition to all of the big bugs getting squashed, perhaps some of the
annoying gnats might get knocked out of the air before that release
happens.
Regards,
chris
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