Did I get it correct, and the initial poster will happen to have a similar box on their banking site as the one I get locally, the Alt-Down-Arrow does nothing. Neither in WinEyes, nor in NVDA, nor in Jaws. As a matter of fact, the box I see for determining which account to charge, and similarly the one for choosing the recipient, these are reported by the screen reader to be an Editbox. Yet, if you do not enter anything in the box, but simply just use the Up-/Down arrows, you will change the account number or name from the list you have on record. Why the screen readers recognize these boxes as Editting fields, and not as Combobox or anything else, I have never really understood.
Maybe the screen readers should start to recognize them as Editable Combos, and read the contents as you arrow through it. I can confirm the technique of tab, shift-tabbing, for reading the updated contents. Mainly I have only seen this behavior on my banking site, and seem to remember seeing it on ONE other website. Probably this kind of controls might be a new, or extended type, that the screen readers should be updated to operate with. Still, might be a challenge, till they get more generally used. Unless you happen to be among the users who see it all the time in your online banking, you might not even be aware this kind of controls exist, or even how to cope with them. And of course, being in the banking system, noone else can be pointed there, to see the behavior, or what causes it. On 6/8/2017 12:47 PM, Steve Nutt via Talk wrote: > Hi, > > With any screen reader and combos, just press Alt Down Arrow to open them > and Alt-Up arrow when you've made your selection. > > All the best > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Brenda via Talk > Sent: 07 June 2017 17:58 > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: combo boxes and drop down boxes > > On my banking site I used to get combo boxes which were easy to access to > select desired account number WITH ENTER and arrow. > Now they seem to be drop-down boxes. I also ran into this on an application > I was filling out. > > In Window-eyes if I arrow, shift-tab and tab back and forth I can read and > adjust my entries. It is a little time consuming but doable. > > Is there an easier way to do this in either Window-eyes or Jaws? > > Thanks for the answer to my other 2 questions. I will try the INSERT-B once > I get the drop-down thing figured out. > > Thanks, > Brenda > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve%40compro > om.co.uk. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
