RE: simple deffective link problem

["Fernando" <my.lists@xxxxxxxx>]

Well, not sure if this makes any difference, given that it is a  simple
link... : I am blind and use a screen reader called Jaws, a fairly  old
version since I am migrating to FOSS solutions.  So if there is some
complexity in the way the links are defined or displayed, this could
conceivably cause the screen reader or some accessibility hook, like MSAA,
to misdirect my clicking?  Not sure if any of this is valid since I do not
know enough, but figured it was worth  mentioning.

Thanks for the help with this.  I found the page now, and if the bug only
causes problems once in a blue moon, well, there are bigger fish to fry out
there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Vermeulen [mailto:jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:54 AM
To: Fernando
Cc: 'Matthew Revell'; launchpad-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: simple deffective link problem

Fernando wrote:
> Strange, really strange.  I tried it two or three times yesterday and 
> had the problem I described.  Now it works fine.
> 
> I am sorry, I don't understand what happened.

There's no way of knowing whether it's the same thing, but I sometimes see a
very unexpected problem that can cause similar effects: I middle-click in my
browser and somehow it seems to be interpreted as rotating the mouse wheel
and _then_ middle-clicking.  The result: every time I try, I consistently
open the same, wrong page.

I forget why, but at some point I became convinced that it was not the mouse
itself that caused the problem.  Most likely reason is that I tried with my
laptop's wheel-less button, but not sure.  I haven't seen the problem in a
while, so could be a bug fix or maybe disabling mouse gestures.

Again, not saying this is necessarily the same problem, but Bengali and
Brazilian Portuguese are about the right distance apart on the page.


Jeroen