Hi. crome tends to crash on me. any suggestions?
Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 14/06/2013, at 2:01 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This sort of problem tends to happen when Web-Developers use fancier links > that VO doesn't seem to handle well. I'm guessing that your focus on the > link was fine since when you pressed Option-return, it started the download > fine. I'm not convinced that Chrome or Firefox on the Mac would have handled > it much differently. Firefox is hundreds of times better than it was a year > ago but still has some issues so I do find it frustrating to use most of the > time. Chrome with ChromeVox is actually quite nice, especially in Google > Apps environments but the ChromeVox Users Guide does suggest pressing return > on links which is actually the MacOS handling the action, not ChromeVox or VO. > > Interesting suggestion when I've not heard of very many VO users actually > using Firefox or Chrome particularly often. > > Later... > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-06-13, at 9:09 PM, Kerri <shalo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> 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. 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