[vip_students] Re: Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:50:37 +0000
I agree Flor with you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Flor Lynch
Sent: 29/08/2011, 12:59 pm
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
Hi Paul,
Interesting. others besides me have found that the setting was changed
because of something they did, either a deletion or something else.
perhaps there's something that should be unchecked when deleting... Do
you have a Google Mail or GMail account that you sometimes use? I do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "(NCBI) Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:59 AM
Subject: [vip_students] Re: Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
> Hi Flor,
>
> That's strange because I have had it set now for a while and even
> though I
> have performed various clean-ups including deleting cache and other
> temp
> folders it has still held its setting of "OFF".
>
>
> Paul.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
> Sent: 29 August 2011 01:52
> To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vip_students] Re: Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
>
> Paul,
>
> Although it is useful to save the setting as you outline, this setting
> isn't permanently saved. (If, say, you do a disk Cleanup or you
> delete
> your Internet cache, then you are once again restored to the default
> Google Instant on value the next time you open Google. I turned Google
> Instant off, which was good for a few weeks until I did a disk
> Cleanup,
> etc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "(NCBI) Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:33 PM
> Subject: [vip_students] Tutorial: Turning off Google instant!
>
>
>>
>> For anyone lately who uses screen readers like Jaws, Supernova, NVDA
>> and
>> even Magnification and who use these types of technologies in
>> conjunction
>> with Google's excellent web search page may have noticed that for
>> whatever
>> reason the stability and refinement of the Google search page
>> interface
>> isn't what it used to be. I noticed this quite a bit lately and have
>> taken
>> some steps to determine what might be done to help improve it and
>> somehow
>> bring it back to a more traditional screen once more. After some
>> research on
>> this I found out that Google was using a relatively new feature
>> called,
>> "Google Instant". The purpose of this little feature is to do the
>> following;
>> * Predictions and results appear while typing.
>> So as soon as you begin typing in your various search words, Google
>> sets
>> about gathering anything relative to the words and to my annoyance
>> caused
>> disruption to my search. I just felt that the page wasn't reading
>> correctly
>> and that my screen reader wasn't as accurate as it used to be. Well
>> I
>> have
>> now resolved this behaviour and below in a short tutorial are the
>> steps to
>> do it.
>>
>> Note: This tutorial is not screen reader specific, anyone can use it.
>> If you
>> do not feel confident about making the below settings changes then
>> you
>> can
>> always get a friend, family member or your I.T trainer to carry out
>> the
>> below changes.
>>
>> (Turning Off Google Instant)
>>
>> 1. Open up a Google search page as normal.
>> 2. Move to the top of the page with keys, "Control + Home keys" on
>> your
>> keyboard.
>> 3. Press the down arrow about 18 lines and you should be now on a
>> link
>> which
>> says, "Options link". Press the enter key on this and wait a few
>> moments for
>> the next page to load up.
>> 4. When the next page as loaded up, again press the keys, "control +
>> home"
>> to move to the top of the page and now press the "Tab key" till you
>> come to
>> a link that says, "Search settings" and press enter key. Wait a few
>> moments
>> for the page to load.
>> 5.The page that should now have loaded up is called the "Google
>> Preferences
>> Page" and here we are going to look for a heading called "Google
>> Instant".
>> Notes: Remember headings are parts of a web page which help break
>> up
>> that
>> page into individual components or sections. Under each heading title
>> will
>> be in this case settings relative to that particular heading title so
>> here
>> when we locate the Google Instant heading we will be just above the
>> settings
>> we need to change. To jump to the Google instant heading, press the
>> letter
>> "H" till you hear your screen reader speak the heading title of
>> "Google
>> Instant".
>> 6. Once on the Google Instant section, press the down arrow till you
>> reach
>> "Two Radio buttons" which will be labelled as follows;
>> *. Radio Button checked, use Google instant.
>> *. Radio Button not checked Don't use Google instant.
>> Notes: The arrow keys will move between these buttons for those using
>> the
>> keyboard, mouse users can simply click on their choice.
>> 7. Keyboard users, arrow down to the radio button that says, Do not
>> use
>> Google instant" and here press the spacebar to make it checked.
>> 8. Once you have checked the appropriate radio button, the next thing
>> is to
>> "Save" the settings, to do this just press the letter "B" for button
>> if you
>> use the keyboard and it should jump you onto the "Save Button" or if
>> it
>> doesn't then just use the tab key to move onto it, takes a bit longer
>> to
>> reach but is just the same. When you reach the Save button, press the
>> key,
>> "spacebar" to complete the job.
>> 9. You may get a notification message that your settings have been
>> saved,
>> just press the spacebar or enter key on the "OK" button and to
>> complete.
>>
>> At this point you're done, I suggest you close out of the Google
>> pages
>> and
>> then re-enter the normal Google search page once more. You should
>> find
>> a big
>> difference in working with the Google interface which now should act
>> more
>> like it used to in the past.
>>
>>
>>
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