I don't know how many of you use Window-Eyes but beginning with 4.0 there
is a way to set two edit boxes in the verbosity menu under MSAA that will
allow you to skip all those top links with a single key-press.  To set this
great feature go to the Window-Eyes control pannel (ctrl-backslash), press
alt-v for the verbosity menu, arrow down to MSAA and press enter.  Tab
until you get to an edit box that reads "next text minimum line length",
this field will be set to one.  Change the one to thirty and then tab to
the next field which reads " "nex text consecutive lines" and again this
field is set by default to one, you want to change this to two.

If you should enter the verbosity menu and find that everything is
disabled, go to the global menu and press enter where it says "global
settings".  Then arrow down to voice only and press enter.  After making
the changes in the global menu you will be able to make the changes in
verbosity specified above.  And, of course, don't forget to save the
changes to your Internet Explorer set file.

The key combination that will take you past all the repetitious links is
insert-down-arrow.

Give this a try.  It works like a charm for me.


As I said these instructions are for Window-Eyes users; I'm sorry I can't
speak for JFW.


At 10:11 PM 4/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I am also frustrated by the New York Times. Every day, I get about 3
>different emails, which list the articles for headlines, opinions,
>technology and arts. I read a synopsis of the article and if I am
>interested in reading the whole article, I click on the url just below the
>synopsis.
>
>The article is downloaded and I have to hit the down arrow about 65 times
>before getting to the top of the article that I want. Does anybody know of
>a quicker way for me to skip over the 65 links for everything you can
>imagine, but nothing to do with what I clicked on the article for.
>
>It used to be about 30 presses of the down arrow, so the change that I
>notice is that it takes me about 30 seconds to find the top of the article.
>And it has made a difference. I used to click on the article with an
>interesting synopsis, wait the 20 seconds for that, then hit about 30 down
>arrows. Now that the time has been increased, I don't read the articles
>anymore. It is just too much time for often mediocre articles.
>
>Peter Seymour
>
>
>At 10:18 PM 4/5/01 -0500, Jay Leventhal wrote:
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>Are any of you as frustrated as I am with what the New York Times has done
>>to their Web site? Now, when you choose an article, you have to page-down
>>four times to get to the text. Then, you usually find only the first
>>"page." You need to choose "single Page View" to get the full text. Then
>>you have to page-down again, or use your screen reader's list of links to
>>choose something you know is near the beginning of the text.
>>
>>What are they thinking? Maybe sighted people aren't bothered by the
>>clutter. But, who wants to read only one screen of an article?
>>
>>Jay Leventhal
>>
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