Re: [orca-list] clickables that appear to do nothing

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Bogus clickables will be fixed soon.
--joanie

On 09/05/2014 07:13 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> I often use 
> Voice of America special-English media in my English classes, and for the first time since the new orca 
> changes 
> in navigation have been introduced went to a VOA-SE site to download some material for a student. 
> Every word in the article is spoken as clickable, but nothing that orca can see seems to happen when one 
> tries to interact 
> with one of these clickables. I think that one is supposed to be ablue to get a deffinition of any word in 
> these texts as 
> they are intended for those who are learning English, but hearing clickable text for each word readmakes 
> the page pretty 
> much unusable. 
> I'd neverthought of pages such as this, but this is not the only site with something similar. Some method 
> must be 
> inplemented to turn off these announcements of clickable when they are of no value to the reader, or some 
> users will 
> certainly have a rather annoying problem to say the least. 
> I did try with carrot browsing on and off, and tried to stick focus mode in case these would have some 
> effect, but they 
> did not. 
> Here's a page where you can find this behavior. 
> http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/security-privacy-debate-after-photo-hacked/2439141.html
> Just navigate down to the main article below the download and print links and use up and down arrows to 
> read. 
> If there is some way to avoid the announcement of clickable for material like this, please let me know 
> about it. 
> I really do not know if this would be hard to control, but I think a shortcut to toggle announcement of 
> clickables would 
> be very useful.
> --
> B.H.
>
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