I’m a screen reader user, and automatic scrolling breaks accessibility with focusing issues.
If I want to find a post in middle of a long thread, it’s impossible with screen reader because screen reader focus jumps all over the place.
I have to go to the top, read one by one until I find the post. I just spent 20 minutes to just find the post I need to reply
Is that possible to have an user preference to enable paging?
Thanks!
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I’m afraid it is not an option at this time, no.
It would be helpful to have some more details of the screen reader that you’re using though, so that we can dig into this a bit more.
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Perhaps you can try the “jump to” dialog. In NVDA you would exit browse mode and enter edit mode, then press # which opens a dialog that let’s you jump to a particular post.
Does that help?
This probelm is huge when using jaws no matter the browser being used. Firefox is a little bit better here, but not much. Since nvda works better I have more or less given up w on this one even though it is a daily anoyance on my forum that has extremely long and longrunning threads! Also navigating in these threads that has posts over 300 even over 100 is more or less impossible.
Claus
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A new update. This go to thread number works fine when it works, however in the long threads I read, this does not work always. Sometimes you land a few posts away from the actual number e.g. landing on 455 when you enter 450. This may be down to jaws issues with scrolling I did not test with nvda. Anyway at one time I was thrown back to around post 150 and in a way I got stock here, no way to get even close to post 490 that is currently the last post in this thread.
Claus
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