I think it would work better if you used alt and down arrow to open the
combo box. You then should be able to down arrow to the state you want or
even just hit the first letter of the state and press enter.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Levy
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 1:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Another One of Those Frustrating Combo Boxes
When I open this bombo box and hit "N" for New York, I land directly on
Nevada, the first state that begins with the letter "N", and it is
automatically selected. There is no way to freeze the combo box so that I
can keep hitting "N" repeatedly until I land on New York.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Another One of Those Frustrating Combo Boxes
Just open it up and hit litter of your state.
At 09:04 AM 11/12/2011, you wrote:
Hi list. I just encountered one of those tricky combo boxes that JAWS has
trouble dealing with. I'm trying to purchase new foam cushions for my
sofa from buyfoam.com, but when I get to the page to calculate shipping
charges, there is a combo box with a list of states. But when I focus on
this combo box and hit Enter to open it and then try to scroll through it
with down arrow or use first letter navigation to select New York, the
first state on the list, Alabama is automatically selected. If I open the
combo box by hitting Enter and then try Alt-down arrow to scroll down the
list of states, I remain stuck on Alabama. There does not appear to be
any way to "freeze" this list so that you can scroll through it to select
the state you want. As soon as you press the down arrow key, forms mode
is turned off and the first state is selected. Alt-down arrow does not
seem to work. And Insert-F8 just brings up the tool bar. Is there any
work around for this problem? Interestingly, the other combo boxes on
this site seem to work normally. I'm using JAWS 9 with XP. Thanks for
any help.
Gerald
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