Is This a NVDA Setting or is this a Problem with the Site?
Martin McCormick
I went to the web site of
http://www.silicondust.com which is a company that makes a line of server-type devices and a few actual servers one can put on their network to stream cable and over-the-air TV on their WiFi or wired networks. I have a device for cable and another for an outside antenna and they are accessible if one is willing to use a little elbow grease involving some programming and the use of such applications as vlc to transcode or convert the mpeg4 packets these devices put on your home network to mpeg2 which is what movies are encoded as. I haven't visited that site in a few years and I also had not done so with brave which is based on chromium and Windows10 with nvda so I was a little frustrated when I went there to get the Windows10 software pack that can talk to those devices and got as far as the Downloads link and then every solitary link after that said, "graphic no description available." There would be half a dozen of these no-help tags after the main header. I actually got the Mac and Windows software anyway by using lynx on a Debian Linux command-line system but I was just lucky that their web site is well enough done that it apparently does not use javascript in the download portion of the web pages but the labels I needed were right there and lynx read them plus the download actually worked fine for both the Macintosh and the Windows10 archives. So I am wondering if I have failed to set nvda correctly since you would think brave should work well for this purpose. If anybody would like to try www.silicondust.com to see what they get, go to Downloads and see if you can find your way around the links just under Downloads. You don't need to actually click on the files and download them as I do have them but it's not very useful to keep hearing "graphic no description available" Who knows what one might accidentally click on? If I can change some setting and make it work, no need to complain to Tech Support. If it really is broken, I will congratulate them on the otherwise well-done site and remind them that those of us who are blind also use TV and their devices give us the whole data stream so we can get SAP if the program has it but having information about what the links do is necessary to work efficiently. Thanks. Martin McCormick |
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