Greetings, Gary, how do you transition from the page with the title to the subsequent pages with the articles? Of course one can go to the "Continue" link but there may be 12 "continue" links with that same name. What is your method of doing this the quickest and easiest? i use all CNN based sites. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:41 AM Subject: Re: Missing keystroke for moving from screen to screen on web sites in 331 > 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. > >> > > >> > - > >> > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > >> > >> - > >> Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > >> > > > >- > >Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > > > > > > - > Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net > - Visit the jfw ml web page: http://jfw.cjb.net
