[gui-talk] File downloads not working with internet explorer

[Humberto Avila]

Dear Antonio,

The problem is not with your version of JAWS, neither with the
inaccessibility of the web site. Sometimes when you open web sites with lots
of pdf's embedded in it, Adobe Reader, if installed, will automatically open
such documents on the browser by default. Do  you have the Adobe Reader from
adobe.com on your system? If so you can change this setting in the Adobe
Reader preferences dialog. Just explore through the menus and you can find
it. This is most likely why you can't read web pages like that, since JAWS
does not support this mode.
I am assuming you have this software installed because you are reporting the
problem you are reporting. And a last word of warning, please don't start
calling Freedom Scientific support before you even read this very e-mail
message or others from other people regarding this issue on this list. We
can probably solve your problem before them. Heck It will save them time and
energy as well! <smile>

Cheers,
Humberto

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Antonio Guimaraes
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:05 AM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] File downloads not working with internet explorer

Humberto,

I would like to try what you suggested and Deen's suggestion as well.

The problem is that Internet explorer now will not read pages with my 
JAWS 11. I get the perpetual message saying

"open parent document button"

The page loads, and a sighted person can see it, but not the screen reader.

I'm calling Feedem Scientific about this and will report any results here.

Antonio



On 1/9/2012 7:51 PM, Humberto Avila wrote:
> Sometimes internet explorer does this because it is blocking file
downloads.
> When this happens, IE will display an information bar. This bar is access
> with your screen reader of choice by pressing the key combination Alt+N.
you
> will then hear the contents of the information bar and what it is
prompting
> you to do or not do. Just follow up with it. For example, if it says that
> internet explorer as kept you from downloading  a file to your computer,
> when you press space bar, there are options to download the file anyways.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Dean Martineau
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:17 PM
> To: freethaught at gmail.com; 'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI
> Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] File downloads not working with internet explorer
>
> Sometimes you can get around this by hitting shift+enter on the link.
>
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Antonio Guimaraes
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:11 PM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] File downloads not working with internet explorer
>
> Hello,
>
> Using IE 8, Jaws 11.
>
> My computer emits this two beep sound whenever I press enter on a link to
a
> file download.
>
> I think a setting somewhere is preventing the download dialogue from
> opening.
> Any thoughts on how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Antonio
>
>
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