[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
- From: The dark count <darkcount1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 15:25:41 -0700
I don't remember it being documented David.
Actually, I was still under the assumption you could only use single
letter navigation.
D C
On 5/5/2013 2:35 PM, David Pinto wrote:
> 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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>
>> 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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