The feature is not working on mp3.com.




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From: Development Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Url re: the Missing marvelous keystroke "page Down" for moving
to next screen on web


> Hi,
>
> The INSERT+ENTER keystroke, by default, moves the virtual cursor to the
next
> chunk of text of 50 characters or more that is not interrupted by any
links.
> Its purpose, of course, is to avoid the long lists of links at the
beginning
> of many web pages and bring the user to the information they actually
might
> find interesting.  On many of the sites we tested, the 50 character
> threshold worked very nicely but, apparently, it is too long for the CNN
> pages.
>
> If you are the sort of person who doesn't mind manually changing JAWS
> Configuration Files, you can go into the default.jcf file (using Notepad
or
> some other editor) and search for the line that reads,
"TextBlockLength=50"
> (leaving out the quotes).  You can then change this value to something
that
> better meets your needs.  Lately, I have kept the setting on my personal
> machine at around 30 and it seems to work very well on my favorite sites.
> Before you edit default.jcf, you might want to make a copy of it so you
can
> easily return JFW to the original settings.
>
> If you set the value too low, you will get a lot of false hits and land in
> the middle of a pile of links.  Conversely, if the value is set too high,
> you will miss some of the articles you are hoping to read.  A bit of trial
> and error might be required to find the value that is best for your needs.
>
> The next version of JFW will have a place in the configuration manager
that
> will contain this value so you won't need to edit the .jcf directly.
>
> Thanks,
> cdh
>
> Chris Hofstader
> Development Manager
> Henter-Joyce, Inc.
> (727) 803-8000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 9:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Url re: the Missing marvelous keystroke "page Down" for
> moving to next screen on web
>
>
> ins+enter does not always work.
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