[gui-talk] Unable to Locate Search Edit Field On Amazon.com Home Page Using Firefox

[Mike Freeman]

With respect, I suggest upgrading to JAWS 15 (the latest version) and IE 11.
Web constructs have changed sufficiently since the release of JAWS 9 that
you may not be getting a full interpretation of the Amazon page.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy
via gui-talk
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:49 AM
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [gui-talk] Unable to Locate Search Edit Field On Amazon.com Home
Page Using Firefox


The subject line sums it up.  Using Firefox 29 with JAWS 9 under XP, I
cannot locate the search edit field on the Amazon.com home page, or at least
the page that comes up when I go to www.amazon.com using Firefox.  So there
is apparently no way to perform a product search from this page.  If I click
on the first link on the Amazon.com home page which accesses the version of
Amazon optimized for screen readers, there is a search edit field on that
page.  But I find the optimized version of Amazon to be less than
satisfactory for my purposes because search results are limited to only five
results per page, and there are no overall product ratings listed for each
product.  When I access the Amazon.com home page using Internet Explorer 8,
I can easily locate the search edit field by pressing "E", the JAWS command
for locating edit fields.  The problem with accessing Amazon.com using IE 8
is that lately JAWS sometimes seems to hang and lose speech on some results
pages, or the pag  es don't load completely.  So accessing Amazon.com with
IE 8 has become an exercise in frustration.  Can anyone explain how to
access the search edit field on the Amazon.com home page using Firefox?  Is
there some setting in Firefox that needs to be changed in order to make the
search edit field magically reappear on the Amazon.com home page?  Or am I
just missing something?  Thanks.

Gerald 

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