[orca-list] bogus linksreported by orca__was: ...clickables that appear to do nothing

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

 Links that don't seem to actual be links are reported on this page.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2600774/cloud-computing-hacked-naked-selfies-stick-around-celebrity-icloud-sex-download-fears.html?source=CTWNLE_nlt_wktop10_2014-09-05#tk.rss_cloudcomputing

For example this line announces "link", but nothing happens when I enter on any word there.
Charles Arthur takes a break from trolling other writers on Twitter, to write this insightful, in-depth 
report:
So far any link I find with tabbing does indeed work, but many are announced when reading with arows that 
seem bogus.
--
B.H.

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:54:53PM -0500, B. Henry wrote:
> nice, 
> If you can spare a minute, why does this happen now, i.e. are On these pages not using standard html or 
> css, or??? 
> I will look at the source to see if I can see anything, but I only know the basics of html.
> --
> B.H.
>
>  
>
> Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:44:39PM -0400, 
> Joanmarie Diggs 
> wrote:
> > 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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