Don’t sweat it. Half the time I call a folder a directory.
From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Are there any NVDA (or WindowEyes) and JAWS "dual users" or people
who've used both here?
Adrian,
Your comment about "false enhancement" rings true, at least in a way,
even to me. I can't tell you how many times I've had a client land in an edit
field, where that's not where I want (or they want) to be and I've succumbed to
saying something along the lines of, "We're looking for a button, so hit 'B'
and that will take you to the first button on the screen." Unfortunately, when
you're in auto forms mode, of course it doesn't do that and interprets the 'B'
as you typing the letter B.
Am I correct in my assumption that if the auto feature is turned off,
you will still get the announcement that you are indeed in an edit field (or
what have you), but you must hit a single Enter, which switches you in to forms
mode and that all typed characters after that will be entered into the edit
field, which you then have to hit Num Pad Plus to shift out of forms mode and
back to navigation mode? Gads, but that's a long-winded question that I don't
quite know how to rephrase!!
As an unrelated aside, oldster that I am I still sometimes refer to enter
as return, and I warn my clients that if they hear me say return I mean enter.
I guess for anyone who ever used an electric typewriter this definitely makes
sense. Thank heavens my really old computer geek doesn't come out where I
would say CR LF, which is short for carriage return line feed!
Brian
