Can you give us a URL for a site that has these articles?  I read news
stories off of the ABC News and CNN sites all of the time without much
difficulty.  Most news sites show a few lines of a story along with the
headline and have a Continue link.  This link can either pop up a new
browser window or just load another web page into the same window.

Gary, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

At 09:14 PM 11/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>The problem is this.  On each page, onewill see the title of some article at
>the bottom right. And that title and maybe 2  introductory lines are at the
>bottom of that page. But the rest of that article is continued  on another
>page. that is how the site gets you to  open more pages.  that  opening of
>more screens used to be accomplished via the "page down keystroke"--but now
>that no longer works in 331. So you are right in that everything on the
>first page is  buffered--but not beyond that first page.
>to get beyond that original page, you have to  do something--formerly the
>pagedown--to move beyond to  another screen. The only choices are to abandon
>Virtual cursor (and then pagedown works) or go on a  fishing  expedition to
>find whatever link might  correspond to the next screen. On a page I  just
>visited, there were 8 links named "Continued"  any of which could have been
>that nice next screen where most of the article I wanted to read was hiding.
>This is a real problem and costs wasted time and effort.
>All  I  am saying is that we need the functionality of the "downarrow" to
>also work in Virtual cursor.
>I did find  the articles I wanted to read, but  it was  not efficient.
>persistence won over time saved.
>This lack of "pagedown" is annoying. The buffering only helps you on the
>intro page--but the rest of the articles remain hidden on subsequent
>screens. That is my point.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Derek Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Missing keystroke for moving from screen to screen on web sites
>in 331
>
>
>> I don't see the problem.  The v cursor buffers every thing on the entire
>> page, not just the screen.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tusing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 3:24 PM
>> Subject: Missing keystroke for moving from screen to screen on web sites
>in
>> 331
>>
>>
>> > Greetings,
>> > On  C N N based web sites, one will  often find the  title of some
>article
>> > on  one screen and the body of the article on the next screen. Well with
>> > JAWS 3.2 (all  variations) and JAWS 3.3,  one could simply  hit the
>"page
>> > down" key which would take one to the body of the article.
>> > Well, once one  is in the virtual cursor in 331, one cannot use the
>> > downarrow key any more to move on to the next screen. That means one of
>> > several lousy alternatives: either one hits "control +  End" and shift
>tab
>> > backwards  or one gets to  leave  virtual cursor and --then--use the
>> > marvelous page down key to move to next screen. Neither of these
>> > alternatives is satisfactory.
>> > We need to get the proper use of the page down key back.
>> > And without it, one is severely limited by the time consuming  extra
>> > keystrokes in reading anything that goes into another page.
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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