Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
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Marcia Yale
Every time I launch Chrome I hear "alert". Sometimes I am also told what the
alert is for, but either way, I can't get rid of the alert nor take any action if I hear the actual message. Any help would be appreciated--shortcut key, anything! Marcia Yale It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
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Gene
I don't know where the message appears but in
Chrome and Firefox, you don't have to get rid of messages, whether you can or
not. They appear somewhere in the Window and don't interfere with the page
being displayed. A new message, if one appears later, will replace the
earlier one.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Marcia Yale
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:35 PM
Subject: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying
alerts alert is for, but either way, I can't get rid of the alert nor take any action if I hear the actual message. Any help would be appreciated--shortcut key, anything! Marcia Yale It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
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David Griffith
The reason that you are getting the chrome Developer Alert Tools in either in Chrome or Firefox is that you have the Developer Mode turned on. Go in firefox to Tools then cursor down to Web Developer and then make sure that everything is unchecked in the sub menu which appears after that. You might have to repeat the uncheck for every item you have in the web developer sub menu. If you are using Chrome then this presumably will also be in the Chrome menus somewhere.
However once these web developer options are all unchecked the inaccessible and annoying web development alerts should go away.
David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog
From: Marcia Yale
Sent: 17 October 2017 19:35 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
Every time I launch Chrome I hear "alert". Sometimes I am also told what the alert is for, but either way, I can't get rid of the alert nor take any action if I hear the actual message. Any help would be appreciated--shortcut key, anything!
Marcia Yale It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
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Gene
It may be mostly for the reason you say, but when I
go to some web sites using Chrome, I get a message that says alert and often
nothing more. This particularly happens on Youttube where the messages
seem to alert me that an add is playing that can be skipped, but because they
are not read often, only the word "alert" is spoken, I'm inferring what the
message may say from the very few times I've heard it read.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: David Griffith
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying
alerts The reason that you are getting the chrome Developer Alert Tools in either in Chrome or Firefox is that you have the Developer Mode turned on. Go in firefox to Tools then cursor down to Web Developer and then make sure that everything is unchecked in the sub menu which appears after that. You might have to repeat the uncheck for every item you have in the web developer sub menu. If you are using Chrome then this presumably will also be in the Chrome menus somewhere.
However once these web developer options are all unchecked the inaccessible and annoying web development alerts should go away.
David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog
Blog
From: Marcia
Yale
Every time I launch Chrome I hear "alert". Sometimes I am also told what the alert is for, but either way, I can't get rid of the alert nor take any action if I hear the actual message. Any help would be appreciated--shortcut key, anything!
Marcia Yale It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
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Blee Blat <bleeblat@...>
Is this related to that bug that still means that some edit fields don't read in Chrome? Or is that a different bug? And by not reading I mean that I can type text but cannot review the text with cursor keys to select or edit it on some form fields in Chrome, even though the same fields work in Firefox.
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Gene
I don't know if there is any connection. One
accessibility problem deals with edit fields. This question deals with a
message being displayed somewhere in the Chrome window and how to see and
dismiss it. I don't know if either are possible but this is just a display
of text somewhere and isn't an edit field.
Gene
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From: Blee Blat
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying
alerts read in Chrome? Or is that a different bug? And by not reading I mean that I can type text but cannot review the text with cursor keys to select or edit it on some form fields in Chrome, even though the same fields work in Firefox.
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David Griffith
I believe that this is the correct diagnoses. I was getting a regular alert message every time I started Firefox which was impossible to find and dismiss using either NVDA or Jaws butg in my case turning web developer mode turned it off and I no longer get the annoying messages. David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog
From: Gene
Sent: 18 October 2017 09:50 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
I don't know if there is any connection. One accessibility problem deals with edit fields. This question deals with a message being displayed somewhere in the Chrome window and how to see and dismiss it. I don't know if either are possible but this is just a display of text somewhere and isn't an edit field.
Gene ----- original message ----- From: Blee Blat Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
Is this related to that bug that still means that some edit fields don't
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Marcia Yale
That part of the menu system is not completely accessible and, though I have unchecked a few boxes, I’m still getting the alerts.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of David Griffith
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 5:24 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
I believe that this is the correct diagnoses. I was getting a regular alert message every time I started Firefox which was impossible to find and dismiss using either NVDA or Jaws butg in my case turning web developer mode turned it off and I no longer get the annoying messages. David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog
From: Gene
I don't know if there is any connection. One accessibility problem deals with edit fields. This question deals with a message being displayed somewhere in the Chrome window and how to see and dismiss it. I don't know if either are possible but this is just a display of text somewhere and isn't an edit field.
Gene ----- original message ----- From: Blee Blat Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
Is this related to that bug that still means that some edit fields don't
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Gene
Are you saying you get alerts on web pages in
general or only on some pages such as when listening to a youtube video?
Since developer tools are not active by default in any browser I know of, I'm
doubtful that they were the cause. Also, I've never looked at developer
tools in Chrome. Is there a setting to just turn them completely
off? There is in Firefox and in Firefox they are off by
default.
there is also another option that has nothing to do
with Firefox. You could use the speech dictionary to cause the word alert
not to be spoken. This would cause it not to be spoken ever, which may be
a consequence you don't want. But it's an option.
At times, I've used the speech dictionary to cause
a word to make a short sound so I know the word is there but it's much faster
than listening to the word. For example, I don't recall what the word is
now, but I set NVDA to make a sound like aa by placing to or three a's in the
pronounced as field. So you could hear something like aa instead of
alert. I did that because there might be times I wanted to hear whatever
word I was hearing on some web sites spoken but not in general because it was
some sort of unnecessary web page information that was often being read.
It isn't anymore but for awhile, on one or two web sites, it was a real
annoyance I greatly reduced in that way.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Marcia Yale
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying
alerts That part of the menu system is not completely accessible and, though I have unchecked a few boxes, I’m still getting the alerts.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io
[mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of
David Griffith
I believe that this is the correct diagnoses. I was getting a regular alert message every time I started Firefox which was impossible to find and dismiss using either NVDA or Jaws butg in my case turning web developer mode turned it off and I no longer get the annoying messages. David Griffith
My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog
From:
Gene
I don't know if there is any connection. One accessibility problem deals with edit fields. This question deals with a message being displayed somewhere in the Chrome window and how to see and dismiss it. I don't know if either are possible but this is just a display of text somewhere and isn't an edit field.
Gene ----- original message ----- From: Blee Blat Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [nvda] Question about Google Chrome and annoying alerts
Is this related to that bug that still means
that some edit fields don't
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