Virtualizing the window! Interesting suggestion, thanks. When I bring up the keyboard shortcuts popup, then try to virtualize the window, JAWS says "Virtualizing is unavailable when forms mode is active". But I have no idea why it would think forms mode is on. If I turn forms mode off and try again, it says "the current location is already in a virtual view". And I still have the same results and can't read the popup text a line at a time, as it still reads the main window text instead, as if the popup isn't there.
I also tried OCR ing the window. Unfortunately, it picks up lots of text outside the popup, so this is not a practical way to read the popup. Maybe there's a way to restrict the OCR region to the popup window, but if there is, I don't know it. The fact that JAWS seems to ignore these popups is actually beneficial in some cases, for example when a popup is asking me to take a survey or something stupid like that. But when I actually want to read and interact with the popup content, it's a real PITA. You are correct that escape gets me out of the popup. Thanks for that tip. Soapbox on: Why do web page designers put their accessibility help in an inherently non-accessible popup window?? GMail also does this! Grrr... Soapbox off. -Paul _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
