Also, if you have access to the Flexible Web feature in newer version of Jaws using it to clean up the Amazon page helps a lot. This is what I did to get rid of all those advertisement frames and sponsored links and other unnecessary clutter. This makes it much easier to get around Amazon.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Merv Keck Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 8:46 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Problems Accessing Amazon.com Hi, I am using Jaws 15 and Internet Explorer 11. However, I surmise that these tips may be helpful with other versions of both Jaws and Internet Explorer. I cannot speak for Firefox, however, because I do not have it installed on either one of my Windows 7 sixty four bit computers. First of all, Amazon has begun to crowd it's pages with far too much information. Between flash and graphical buttons and links it is very difficult sometimes to navigate to the place you want to go. The past forty days I have been updating our two bedroom two bathroom apartment and I have been ordering items from Amazon almost every day. I use the following navigational guidelines to speed up my browsing. First, knowing that there will be about 350 links on the page including pictures, I give it a chance to load. Then I press "e" to put me the search dialog box. Once I type my keyword for which I am searching. For example dining table. I give it another chance to load another page of too many links and pictures and graphics after I have pressed enter. Now to the individual who posed this question, I am not attempting to insult your intelligence with baby steps. I am giving detailed instructions for anyone who wants them but who is not as experienced with jaws or with Internet Explorer as you no doubt are. Smile! Anyway once this page of search results has been loaded I narrow down my results because I am a Prime user. Even if you do not have Prime you can benefit by the same keystrokes. I hit "h2" and this will take me over to heading 2 where Jaws will voice a selection of options that Amazon has such as Prime or if I do not want to eliminate Prime shipping I can further down arrow and choose other options such as add ons or color choices or price limits and so on. I can press enter on each choice and each time give Amazon a few seconds for the page to load and then press "h" to cycle through my options instead of arrowing through the very noisy page of hundreds of links that sometimes freezes Jaws or even Internet Explorer. Once I have found an item I want to look at more closely for example a specific dining table I press enter and the page for that table will load with another 200 links including pictures and graphical links. I can also use the "h" to skip a bunch of amazon pushes for everything from Kindle unlimited to Kindle fire to amazon phone etc. This will speed me through the adds for what others who looked at this choice eventually purchased to the reviews and the technical specifications which I really want to see and I can go right to the combo box where I can select more than one of this item and then arrow right down to add to cart. This also allows me to skip their new little trick where they put one click purchasing right below add to cart so that will get turned on and they can sell me stuff automatically without me even knowing it if I am not very careful. And once I am done instead of playing around with the "b" over and over where they try to sell me tons of other stuff that is claimed to be related to what I just bought which is a bunch of crap, Laughs! I just hit Jaws very useful "Insert + F7" and choose "My cart" or whatever your cart happens to be named. And then hit "b" and it will take you to proceed to checkout right away. That will save you a whole lot of time which will keep your jaws and your browser from freezing up with all the adds and extra links and extra graphical buttons and ads that amazon has recently started adding. HTH Blind5sparrow For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
