I'm not sure if this will help in your situation or not, but one thing I 
do when I don't want to lose my place on a page, is follow a link with 
control+enter instead of just enter. This will open the new link in it's 
own tab or page. When I'm done, I can just use control+w to close that 
tab and I'm taken back to the tab with the original web page in it, and 
my place hasn't changed. Note that since you opened that new page in 
it's own tab, you can get back to the original page and it's tab with 
the control+shift+tab key.

On 11/04/2013 09:05 PM, Ana G wrote:
> One of the campuses where I teach requires faculty to use the 
> Outlook.com website. there's the regular version and a more accessible 
> version. I haven't tried the regular version in about a year. At the 
> time, it was usable, but there were lots of things I couldn't do or 
> needed to do with the Jaws cursor.
>
> The more accessible version is completely accessible, but it's a pita 
> to work with because it's not very efficient. for example, when you're 
> in the inbox, each subject line is a header, so you can easily jump 
> from message to message, but you have to arrow up or down from that 
> heading to read the sender or the date. You also have to arrow up to 
> check boxes for deleting or moving messages, refresh Jaws manually to 
> make sure it's checked, and arrow down again to make sure you checked 
> the correct box. Then you need to use the find command to actually hit 
> the Delete or Move link, or you can hit ctrl+home or ctrl+end and then 
> arrow down or up to find the link. And of course, there's no 
> indication either with Jaws or NVDA that the message is read or unread 
> or that it has an attachment. finally, when you open a message and 
> return to the inbox (after closing, deleting, or replying), focus 
> rarely returns to the message you were on, so you have to skip through 
> the headings to find it again.
>
> I use this to collect student homework and send out my 
> feedback/grades. It takes about three times as long to download and 
> upload work with Outlook.com than it does with Thunderbird, which I'm 
> allowed to use at the other institution where I teach. I find it 
> incredibly frustrating and inefficient. I've got a backlog of homework 
> assignments to return. I'll be sending it out this week. I'll probably 
> spend two days (about twelve hours) doing it. That's time I could be 
> reading essay drafts, planning lessons, or just relaxing over a cup of 
> hot cocoa.
>
>
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