Greetings! Direct from the Read Me:
"* Automatic Form Interaction Window-Eyes 8.0 Beta 1 now includes an option to automatically turn Browse Mode off whenever a form element is reached via the Tab or Shift-Tab keys. Thus, you need no longer worry about having to disable Browse Mode to type text into an edit box, arrow through combo boxes, or work with a specialized ARIA control. Simply Tab through web pages and let Window-Eyes take the guess work out of turning Browse Mode on and off for you. Note that you can always re-enable Browse Mode by pressing Control-Shift-A or, new in Window-Eyes 8.0 Beta 1, with the Escape key. It is important to remember that the automatic toggling of Browse Mode only applies when you are Tabbing through web sites. Navigating by any other means (such as with the Arrows or dedicated Browse Mode element keys) will leave you in browse Mode as they always have." Now, if I'm understanding right, folks are wanting to use the arrow keys to enter and exit an edit box, combobox, etc. automatically, similar to how NVDA works with it, and makes that feature optional. I myself do not mind pressing F for jumping to a form, then pressing tab in the standard WE layouts, what is a little strange, is if you're using the Insert keyboard layout, and you want to go to the first form control on the page automatically. You have to arrow up above the control that you used the hot key to get to, such as E for the edit box, then press the tab key, there by turnning off browse mode automatically foryou. If you wish to preview a form, yu can pres escape from wherever yu are, then pres up -arrow, then tab on the control you want to continue from, thus browse mode turnsoff automatically again. I'm not gonna switch back to the older way myself, however it'll take some practice to get down. On 10/23/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > If you tab to a button, it is by design. I am not sure what happens if > you tab to a link. > > Dave Bahr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But the issue is that the control in question is an edit box so using >> the arrow won't really help. That is, if you have turned browse mode >> off to type in the edit box, when you press tab and are out of the >> form in question, browse mode is not turned back on. Is this by >> design? It's really a trivial thing, but I just wanted to see if this >> was a bug or not. >> >> Dave C. Bahr >> Facebook: Dave Bahr >> Twitter: dcbahr >> >> On 10/22/2012 11:47 PM, net bat wrote: >> > most of the time if you arrow down one line browse mode will turn >> back on. >> > at least with firefox 16. i have not used i e 8 yet. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- From: Dave Bahr >> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:31 PM >> > To: gw-info >> > Subject: Browse mode with control hotkey >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > It appears that the browse mode control when using tab works perfectly >> > fine. However, I was wondering if it was possible to change the >> > behavior >> > if you use the arrow keys or the control hotkey, which is the C. When I >> > tab out of the form that I'm entering data into, browse mode is not >> > turned back on. Is this intentional? If so, why? -- >> > Dave C. Bahr >> > Facebook: Dave Bahr >> > Twitter: dcbahr >> > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> > sender >> > only. 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