Hi Brian,

You can quit while you're ahead!  You cannot use the Jaws cursor in Chrome. 
There used to be a work around in Firefox, but I have not heard of any work 
arounds to make the Jaws cursor work in Chrome.
Take care.
Mike
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brian Vogel
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Moving around in Google Chrome (using NVDA, but hoping JAWS is 
same)


I've finally had a few moments to get to the specifics of activating a 
button/submenu in the control bar across the bottom of the screen that shows 
up when you download and save a file or files.  One button/submenu gets 
placed on that control bar for each file you've downloaded, and the control 
bar stays there until you intentionally dismiss it by going to the far right 
using the END button and activate the close button.

As previously reported, SHIFT+F6, either once or repeated depending on where 
your focus currently is, eventually lands you in the control bar.  What you 
hear announced as you land on each button is the name of the specific file 
you downloaded and "submenu."  The way I opened the context menu in NVDA for 
a given button in this bar is by hitting INS+NumPad Slash, which routes the 
mouse to the object NVDA has focus on, then hit NumPad Star, which right 
clicks and causes the context menu to pop up.  I then just use the up arrow 
key to traverse the menu items until I hit the "Always open with System 
Viewer" or "Always open with Adobe Reader," depending on your platform.

If I'm reading the JAWS documentation correctly the INS+NumPad Plus, route 
PC Cursor to JAWS Cursor, should place mouse focus above the button and the 
command for right click in JAWS is also NumPad *.  If my reading of the "For 
cursors and Mouse" section of the JAWS Keystrokes list is incorrect please 
let me know.  No direct reference is made to the mouse proper other than 
when giving the left and right mouse button clicks.  But I believe that 
"Route PC Cursor to JAWS Cursor" in that context has to be the same as what 
NVDA documentation describes as, "Move the mouse pointer to the current 
navigator object."

After I've selected the "Always open" option for a file of any given file 
type any subsequent left clicks on links for files of that type cause the 
control bar to show up again showing the status of the file download, but 
the moment the download is complete the file itself gets opened in the 
system viewer for that file type.

Brian

 

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