When you visit certain websites in Chrome, the sites ask you whether you
want to block or allow popups or notifications. These may be ads,
reminders, or information, like the ones you're getting. If Jaws is your
screen reader of choice, you probably only hear the Allow and Block
buttons. Sometimes you can hear the whole announcement if you use the
read-screen command, but that varies from Jaws update to update. Anyway,
you can tell the website not to notify you of anything by pressing enter
on the Block button.
To disable any popups you may have allowed, try the following, though
I'm not 100% sure this will fix things:
1. In Chrome, press alt+F to get into the menu.
2. Down-arrow to Settings, and press enter.
3. Tab to Site Settings, and press enter.
4. Tab to Popups and Redirects, and press enter.
5. Arrow around. There's a heading that says Blocked and another one
that says Allowed. If you have anything under Allowed, do whatever you
need to do to block it. I don't have anything there. I have a vague
memory of there being check boxes next to apps.
Hope this helps.
On 4/11/2020 4:49 PM, Rachel wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> I began using Chrome a few weeks ago and am still getting used to it.
> Maybe for the last week or so, I've been getting these weird "pop-up"
> messages from it, such as, "In a ventilator shortage, who gets one?",
> or "How long can the coronavirus live on surfaces?", or "What
> temperature is considered to be a fever?" - short little one-line
> messages/questions like these. It appears that Chrome isn't actually
> open when these messages appear - they just interrupt what I'm doing,
> switching my focus from the screen I'm in to Chrome. When I've tried
> Tabbing from the message, it shows that the site is www.health.com,
> and I've been asked, at least sometimes, if I want to go to this
> site. These pop-up messages change each day - maybe twice a day -
> though I haven't paid that much attention to when or how often. Does
> anyone know why I'm getting these messages? I can't help but wonder if
> it's a virus. I can't say I've ever seen this kind of thing before
> from a Web browser.
> Any thoughts about this are appreciated.
> Thank you in advance.
> Rachel
>
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