[gui-talk] Losing Position On Google Search Results Page

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Wed Feb 17 04:15:28 UTC 2010


If you use Shift+ENTER to open each result in a new window, you'll be back 
at the proper place when you close it.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Lain" <edlain at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Losing Position On Google Search Results Page


> Hi! Gerald. I use Window-Eyes and have exactly the same problem. Don't 
> know
> why. I just groan and bare it.
>
> Ed Lain
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:53 AM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Losing Position On Google Search Results Page
>
>
> Using Google as my search engine with IE 8 and JAWS 9, I have lately been
> encountering an annoying problem on the Google search results page.
> Whenever I click on one of the search results using Enter, I am taken to
> that page.  But when I press Alt-left arrow or select Back from the 
> Context
> menu to return to the Search Results page, I am taken not to the link I 
> just
> clicked on, but rather to the beginning of the search results.  Then I 
> have
> to use header navigation to return to my original position on the Search
> Results page.  So, for example, if I select the fifth result on the page,
> and then return to the results page, I land at the very beginning of the
> search results  rather than back at the heading for the fifth result.
> Strangely, this behavior doesn't seem to happen if I use Bing or Yahoo as 
> my
> search engine.  What's going on?  Is there some Google setting I need to
> adjust  so that I am always returned to my original point of origin on the
> results page rather than to the beginning of the search results?  Thanks.
>
> Gerald
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