[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
- From: "David Pinto" <davepinto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 14:35:53 -0700
OMG! Please disregard my last post. I just tested out my JAWS dialog lists,
in JAWS 8, 9, and 10, and indeed you cannot move to items by typing their
names. However, starting with JAWS 11, you can in fact type consecutive
letters and the item in the list that starts with those letters will be
selected. This is stunning to me, since for 14 years I have been carefully
organizing dialog lists based on the assumption you only have 1 letter
navigation. Well I'll be! I'm seriously happy, but I wonder if this
functionality was ever documented when JAWS 11 came out.
David
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From: "David Pinto" <davepinto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:14 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] JAWS List box question
>I use dlgSelectItemInList () quite a bit because I need the index of the
> selected item to be returned. However, with lists created with
> dlgSelectItemInList (), when the list contains, say, 6 items starting with
> the letter A, and the last item that starts with A is named, say, Axle,
> then
> you have to press A, 6 times to get to Axle, because typing A X, would
> move
> you to the first item that starts with the letter X. Contrast this with
> when
> you are in the list view of the JAWS links list, where when typing faster
> than a certain base rate, each letter builds the name that is searched
> for.
> It would be vastly more convenient to have items in the JAWS dialog lists
> that are built with dlgSelectItemInList () and similar functions, to be
> selectable by typing more than one letter. Does anyone know if JAWS
> supports
> creating such a dialog? Or is their a convenient workaround to enable this
> type of functionality?
>
> David Pinto
> YesAccessible.com
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