Hello, Tim, et al. This is the message Ray made reference too which makes your help much more appreciated. >From Philip at CNIB > Hi Kerri, > > It is of course completely up to you if you want to use a new browser but I > know we have clients using Firefox and Chrome. At this stage if you try out > one of these browsers and it works for you then we may be able to isolate the > problem to Safari, or your particular installation of Safari. > > You are using Voiceover correct? Given what you are downloading it definitely > sounds like you are not hitting the actual Download link. There was a time > where our JAWS users on our old site where trying to download books and ended > up downloading the web page instead. It was because the focus of their > screenreader was not on the actual link. Is there anything you can do to > confirm that your screenreader is focused on the Download link before you > select it? > > Thanks, > Philip Springall
On 2013-06-13, at 12:56 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What did you press when attempting to start the download? I've found that > sometimes either pressing Return or Option-return works on some sites. > Return simply activates the link whereas Option-return starts to download > whatever is attached to that link. > > I haven't used the CNIB site much as I used to find that the CNIB didn't > cater much to us folks that live in the sticks, nor did they know much about > the Mac. That's probably not a fair comment now but it's how things used to > work years ago. Anyway, I digress. > > See if either of those suggestions help. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-06-13, at 12:25 PM, Kerri <shalo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hello, all. I' trying to access the CNIB library in order to download books. >> When I click on the download link, rather than download the book, I have >> part of the website and the only assistance I received from the BNIB was to >> download google chrome. Any help would greatly be appreciated. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
