Hi Dale, and any one on list, that has trubble's with the combo boxes.
I have visited the webpage that you linked to, and have tryed out the combo
boxes there, and there are two different ways to work, whether you are using
Jaws 10 - 11, or earlyer version's.
Well, if someone have disabled the autoforms mode in Jaws 10 - 11, than it
work's just as in the earlyer version's.
So let me begin with the older versions:
When getting to a combobox, press enter, to activate the forms mode.
Than press alt+down arrow to open the listbox, and then arrow down through
the combobox.
You can also use first letter to jump to a particular letter, and than use
the arrow key's to find what you are searching for.
Now press alt+up arrow, to close the listbox, and often the webpage
automatically click's here, otherwise, tab to a button that can be named go
or search or something else, and press enter here.
On webpage's where there are multiple of comboboxes, you sirtainly need's to
make your selection's in any one, before selecting the go/search ... button.
When you have activated the form's mode in the earlyer version's of Jaws,
you only can tab through the fields on the page, and if you want to read
anything of the text information between the field's, you must press the pc
cursor bbutton, to leave the forms mode, and come back to the virtual
cursor.
When you then again meet's a combobox, you must again activate the forms
mode, by pressing enter.
In Jaws 10 - 11 there are an automatic forms mode, that gives a sound, when
the cursor are placed on a combobox.
Here just press spacebar, to select the combobox, and than alt+down arrow,
and just continue as described above.
When there are pressed alt+up arrow to close the listbox, the combobox
automatically are left, and you can continue to arrow down the page, or tab,
just as you want your self.
I hope that this advice can be helpful to someone.
Hans Pauli.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Leavens" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Combo boxes
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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