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Sandra Streeter #49909 We can dream, and hope the powers that be see the issue and address it when they design new software. Sandra Not “Revelation” – tis – that waits But our unfurnished eyes – (Emily Dickinson) toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- From: Mario Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 7:58 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: clickable, clickable, clickable ... if it could, it wouldn't matter because clickables can occur more than once in a line of text. they just aren't found at the end of a line. it would be nifty if JAWS could distinguish if a "clickable" really does something as opposed to doing nothing, then JAWS could silence clickables if they don't do anything while clickables that do something are announced. -------- Original Message -------- From: Shannon [mailto:shannon@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 6:43 PM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... If this information can be turned off, can it be rearranged, instead of saying clickable first and then the link to the item could that be last in case you just wanted to pass through it? Thanks Shannon Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Mario <mrb620@...> wrote: you can try the following: in Settings Center under the Web / HTML / PDFs category, there is a subcategory labeled Miscellaneous. under Miscellaneous there is a setting labeled Indicate Element Attribute. unchecking this setting will stop Jaws from saying "Clickable". however, it's not recommended since there are times when you will miss out on clickable elements that actually trigger actions, such as on banking sites. -------- Original Message -------- From: Richard Turner [mailto:richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 10:35 AM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard .
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Mario #49907 if it could, it wouldn't matter because clickables can occur more than once in a line of text. they just aren't found at the end of a line. it would be nifty if JAWS could distinguish if a "clickable" really does something as opposed to doing nothing, then JAWS could silence clickables if they don't do anything while clickables that do something are announced. toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -------- Original Message -------- From: Shannon [mailto:shannon@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 6:43 PM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... If this information can be turned off, can it be rearranged, instead of saying clickable first and then the link to the item could that be last in case you just wanted to pass through it? Thanks Shannon Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Mario <mrb620@...> wrote: you can try the following: in Settings Center under the Web / HTML / PDFs category, there is a subcategory labeled Miscellaneous. under Miscellaneous there is a setting labeled Indicate Element Attribute. unchecking this setting will stop Jaws from saying "Clickable". however, it's not recommended since there are times when you will miss out on clickable elements that actually trigger actions, such as on banking sites. -------- Original Message -------- From: Richard Turner [mailto:richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 10:35 AM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard .
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Shannon #49903 If this information can be turned off, can it be rearranged, instead of saying clickable first and then the link to the item could that be last in case you just wanted to pass through it? Thanks Shannon Sent from my iPhone toggle quoted messageShow quoted text On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Mario <mrb620@...> wrote: you can try the following: in Settings Center under the Web / HTML / PDFs category, there is a subcategory labeled Miscellaneous. under Miscellaneous there is a setting labeled Indicate Element Attribute. unchecking this setting will stop Jaws from saying "Clickable". however, it's not recommended since there are times when you will miss out on clickable elements that actually trigger actions, such as on banking sites. -------- Original Message -------- From: Richard Turner [mailto:richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 10:35 AM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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Richard Turner <richardturner42@...> #49891 Thank Mario, I'd rather be able to actually make sense of the text and I don't do enough online banking on my computer to matter. Thanks, Richard toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Mario Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:38 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: clickable, clickable, clickable ... you can try the following: in Settings Center under the Web / HTML / PDFs category, there is a subcategory labeled Miscellaneous. under Miscellaneous there is a setting labeled Indicate Element Attribute. unchecking this setting will stop Jaws from saying "Clickable". however, it's not recommended since there are times when you will miss out on clickable elements that actually trigger actions, such as on banking sites. -------- Original Message -------- From: Richard Turner [mailto:richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 10:35 AM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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Richard Turner <richardturner42@...> #49890 Thanks Pam. That did the trick. Richard toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 8:34 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Richard, If you are using Firefox, try the following: While in a window running Firefox, open the JAWS Settings Center with the JAWS key and the number 6. Under the"Web / HTML / PDFs"category, there is a subcategory labeled "Miscellaneous" Under"Miscellaneous"there is a setting labeled "Indicate Element Attribute" Uncheck this setting. Pam ________________________________________ From: main@jfw.groups.io [main@jfw.groups.io] on behalf of Richard Turner [richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 10:35 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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Mario #49889 you can try the following: in Settings Center under the Web / HTML / PDFs category, there is a subcategory labeled Miscellaneous. under Miscellaneous there is a setting labeled Indicate Element Attribute. unchecking this setting will stop Jaws from saying "Clickable". however, it's not recommended since there are times when you will miss out on clickable elements that actually trigger actions, such as on banking sites. toggle quoted messageShow quoted text -------- Original Message -------- From: Richard Turner [mailto:richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, Jun 5, 2017 10:35 AM EST To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say "clickable" on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND #49888 Richard, If you are using Firefox, try the following: While in a window running Firefox, open the JAWS Settings Center with the JAWS key and the number 6. Under the"Web / HTML / PDFs"category, there is a subcategory labeled "Miscellaneous" Under"Miscellaneous"there is a setting labeled "Indicate Element Attribute" Uncheck this setting. Pam ________________________________________ From: main@jfw.groups.io [main@jfw.groups.io] on behalf of Richard Turner [richardturner42@...] Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 10:35 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: clickable, clickable, clickable ... Jaws seems to love to say “clickable” on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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Richard Turner <richardturner42@...> #49887 Jaws seems to love to say “clickable” on every bloody item that could possibly be clicked on. Is there a way to change that? I was on a page of search results and could hardly figure out what the heck it was saying beyond clickable. Richard
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