[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 17:08:50 +1000
Amen! and this expressed concept felt by me/multiplied by X over the
years!!!
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From: "David Pinto" <davepinto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:39 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
> Jim,
>
> If Freedom Scientific was actually rigorous in documenting improvements,
> functionality, as well as remaining issues, I imagine one year of my life
> would have been saved in order to do better, well OK, if not better, then
> at
> least different things. But then multiply that by the time all the other
> scripters on this list have lost. This is not even mentioning how many
> posts
> on this list serve would have been unnecessary.
>
> David
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> From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 7:24 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
>
>
>> Confirmed though. it actually does this now. He's not smoking the good
>> stuff. <grin>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "The dark count" <darkcount1@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 5:25 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS List box question
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Pinto"<davepinto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To:<jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 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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>> D C
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