I am noticing that Web implementations are finding ever more clever ways of
confounding access technology and I don't understand what benefits are
derived.
Try WWW.megabus.com for example.
There is a series of combo boxes there looking for origin and destinations.
Which ever method used to access the combobox Jaws doesn't speak but it does
jump elsewhere on the page. I discovered that if I go out of forms mode,
back to the combobox I can read the selection. I return to forms mode, arrow
or first letter the next navigation and find myself once more somewhere else
on the form, go back to virtuous cursor, relocate the combobox and so on
until the selection is made.
I would certainly like a better solution than that. Remembering that bus
travel is a pretty important travel accessibility option for the blind I
remain eternally grateful that my expensive software technology has put its
development energies into a substitute search for an already very accessible
service provided by google.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Combo boxes
This doesn't always work. Like RJ, I notice that when you open some combo
boxes and press Alt-down arrow, the first item is immediately selected and
you are taken out of forms mode before you have a chance to arrow down to
the item you actually want. I haven't figured out a way around this
glitch myself, so any suggestions would be appreciated.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Belville" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Combo boxes
Try opening it by first turning forms mode on and then using Alt plus
down arrow. You should hear something about the combo box being open.
Now arrow down to the choice you want. If it's the type of combo box I'm
thinking of, you can just press tab to move away from that box and it
should open the page with whatever choice you selected.
Constipated accountants work it out with a pencil.
Lisa Belville
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "RJ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:28 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Combo boxes
On several web sites I am not able to choose items in combo boxes. If I
arrow down to make a selection, it is like clicking on a link. Is there
something I am missing to choose the item I am looking for in these
combo boxes?
RJ
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