It looks like we were mistaken. This can also be made to work in IE
just like Firefox. We don't read the selection when you press
space. Also you have to press shift-f8 to put the box in to
multi-select mode for the keyboard. The other problem is that
pressing enter on the list box, while in browse mode, doesn't set
focus so you'll have to press enter on a control that is close to the
listbox or arrow to a link that is close, do control-shift-a, and
then tab or shift-tab to the listbox. Obviously this needs cleaned up.
At 12:53 PM 11/19/2010, you wrote:
FWIW, there's no keyboard support for multi-selecting in list boxes
in IE without a screen reader running. So the limitations that
you're running into are more about the browser than Window-Eyes.
Control-space works fine in Firefox to perform multi-selections. You
have to review the selected items with Control-Shift-M, but it still
works (and that can be enhanced).
Aaron
On 11/19/2010 10:57 AM, Martin Thomas Schrott wrote:
wow,
I thought this is called a basic feature as listboxes are html 2.0
standard which is available since the stoneage :-)
Wouldn't a bugfix or something be writeable to make this available sooner?
Or could this be solved with some kind of script?
This really is more than important for me and for sure also a lot of others.
There are thousands of webpages arround using this lists and WE
does not support them? :-(
Please could you rise the importance of this!!!!
thanks a lot!
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Michael D. Lawler
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Selectbox with multiple selections?
WE currently does not work with list boxes on web pages in IE 7 and
8. We plan on addressing this in a future release.
At 10:17 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote:
This has been raised in the past, and no answer was forthcoming.
Hopefully, we will get one soon.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Martin Thomas Schrott
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:55 AM
Subject: Selectbox with multiple selections?
Hello!
I am trying to use selectboxes where you can select multiple
entries. But I have no idea how to mark or unmark them or get
anounced which ones are selected and which arent.
Windoweyes just keeps silent, if you press ctrl. during the
selection with the cursor keys. So i have no idea how to select
more than one entrie. Normally (if you are sighted) you would use
the ctrl. key and the mouseclick to select more than one entry.
Example for such a <select ... multiple="multiple"> .. </select>
selectbox with multiple choice: Blub Platsch Autsch
Anybody an idea how to use this kind of selectboxes? Any help
would be appriciated!
Cheers
Martin
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