I encountered some combo controls like that on Hewlett Packard's site recently, it was very annoying until I figured out what was going on. With hp's site it was even worse in that the drop down items appeared below the bottom of the remaining form items.
On 3/29/14, Brad Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > The other day the question came up about the new controls on Amazon.com > for adding a credit card, so just for fun I decided to investigate. I > got it to work, at least with Firefox and JAWS 15 on Windows 7 Pro. > > I went to the Add A Credit Card page, where it was easy enough to type > in the card number and the name on the card. When I got to the > Expiration Date, there were these weird buttons for the month and the > year. When I tried to change the month from the current 03 to the month > I needed, I was stuck. I finally figured out that, while in forms mode, > after you tab from where you entered the card holders name, you could > press the space bar on that funky Month button, which caused JAWS to > announce "toggle button pressed." Then you could arrow down to the month > you needed. After selecting the month, I pressed the space bar again. > That locked the month in place, and I could tab to the year. Again, I > pressed space so I could arrow down to the year I needed. Then I > pressed space bar to lock the year in place. Voila. Done! It sounds > really complicated when I write it all out; it was actually quite easy, > if a bit nonstandard. > > Hope this helps, > Brad > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Soronel Haetir [email protected] _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
