Hi, Don. Thanks; I'll give that a try. Yeah, I thought Speakeasy used to work pretty wwell. I know I'd used it before, so I'm glad it wasn't just my imagination.
--- Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wesderby Check me out on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wderby -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Marang Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Looking for Accessible Broadband Speed Test Site I was highly disappointed to find that a resource I depended on is no longer usable! I have used speed test at least monthly to check the bandwidth Verizon was providing. The page at: speakeasy.net/speedtest was in Flash, but the several buttons for various cities were well labeled and accessible with JAWS. The pretty speedometer and results within the Flash movie were almost worthless to me without magnification. However, the previous version also had the results repeated below the Flash object frame in plain text. This was very accessible and I could copy the results text to my calendar to compare results over time. Unfortunately, the new version of this test did away with both the accessible buttons to start the test and the accessible results! I have also used Verizon's speed test at: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/speedtest/hsi/ It is not as easy as speakeasy was. It requires you to activate the "Check My Speed >" link, then activate the "Continue >" on their disclaimer page to finally get at the results page. Wait a minute or two before looking for the results. Don Marang Don Marang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Derby" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:11 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Looking for Accessible Broadband Speed Test Site > Hi All. > > > > I recently had some work done by my ISP, and they used www.speakeasy.net > to > test my connection speeds for downstream and upstream. I went to this > site > on the repairman's advice and thought I'd check it out. > > > > Unfortunately, the speed test is a flash-based system.I get a couple boxes > that say "Flash Movie Start" and "Flash Movie End", but none of the > buttons > show so I can't launch the test, tell what the progress is, anything like > that. Now, as I'm sure has happened to many of you, I've noticed I can > use > some Flash sites and not others. > > I > > 'm running the latest update to JAWS 10, and the latest update to FireFox > 3. > IE7 wouldn't even show the Flash, even though I DO NOT have JAWS set up to > ignore Flash. > > So > > , I'm looking for a site that has a somewhat screenreader-friendly speed > test I can run once in a while. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Wes > > > > PS: The reason my Comcast guy used Speakeasy.net is because we're in > Everett, WA, and they're just down the road in Seattle, so the servers are > local. > > > > > > > > --- > > Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wesderby > > Check me out on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wderby > > > > > > 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
