Hi Harry,
I have had the problem of IE going to the wrong link for years. It seems to happen on some web sites more than others. I have no idea what causes it but luckily it only happens a small percentage of times.
As for back not working, this is generally because IE has opened the link in a new tab. I find that hitting alt F4 to close will bring up a box asking you if you want to close all tabs or just the current tab. If you close just the current tab, you will be back on your original page. This is inconvenient but is a feature of either IE or how the web page was coded, not a screen reader problem. Perhaps there is some convenience to sighted users to have pages open in separate tabs rather than pages, no idea... If it is IE doing this & not the web page itself, perhaps someone on the list will know of a way to tell IE not to open links in new tabs.
Sherry Wells
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Hi all,
Using Jaws 18.0.4350 and windows 10 creators update 1709, and internet explorer 11.
I have 2 things:
1. Is this just a jaws thing, or do all screen readers have this problem, and it's getting worse. When I press enter on a link, jaws either goes to the wrong link, or, it doesn't go anywhere, so, you have to find the link again and press enter, and that, wastes my time.
2. I'm finding that more and more, pressing the backspace key does not take you back to the previous web page, and many times, when I press alt left arrow, it doesn't work either.
Please don't tell me to use google Chrome, because I'd love to, but there are still problems with bookmarks, and I cannot download anything with it either, because when I click on a file to download it in Chrome, it just plays the file, instead of downloading it.
Harry
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