Hello Chris,
Understand first and foremost that I appreciate all the hard work and
development that you and everyone else have put into this and earlier
versions of JFW. These comments are meant constructively.
At 10:23 AM 10/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>personally, I vastly prefer using the virtual cursor to our old methods. It
>does, however, have some limitations, especially when dealing with objects
>generated by JavaScript. Our virtual mode cannot "see" the information
>generated by JavaScript. To my knowledge, this is also a problem with the
>other screen readers which provide an easy, word processor like, interface
>to web pages.
>
>The way that JFW handles this situation is confusing to say the least just
>now. HJ should investigate fixes, employment of some sort of warning
>message or something. I work with people daily who I know are going to
>find this mixed information confusing.
I say this because when you load the page JFW says that their are 10
links. Yet when you cursor through the text only one link is
present. Adding to the confusion though is that if you press Insert-F7 you
are told again that 10 links are on the page but about seven of them are
listed as the same link. In reality, as I mentioned, if you tab to the
page you find all the different links.
This requires that the user go through a lot of hoops and starts to make he
or she wonder when it is necessary to try all these different
strategies. At least giving the user information about when JFW may not be
accurately presenting the page in Virtual PC cursor mode would be a clue.
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