[jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for Internet Explorer 8

I am not using IE 8 so I cannot comment on this issue except to say that
The What's new info in Jaws 9 indicates that Jaws now supports IE 8 beta
1.

I noted that the what's new info for jaws 10 says that various options
such as aria live region support and Landmark navigation will be
supported in Internet explorer 8 when it is officially released.

It would be interesting to find out whether JAWS 10 works any
differently in IE8 and also to know if yours is an isolated situation.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité 
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel:  David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel. / Tél:    (613) 992-2779 

>>> "Cearbhall O Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxx> 03:26 am Tuesday,
February 24, 2009 >>>
Dear All,

I wonder if anyone has any experience of my latest problem with IE 8? I
am
running XP with JAWS 9 and have installed IE 8. When I load IE I get a
screen that says "Open master document" whenever I press the tab key.
The
alt key opens the title line of the menu bar and speaks the headings
"file,
edit, view, etc." but no menu contents. However, the menu bar is
definitely
there because I can operate all the items by using keyboard shortcuts.


As a check, I launched Narrator which does echo all the menu items and
so I
know that the problem must lie with the JAWS scripts which are reported
as
the scripts for IE 8.

Using the JAWS cursor gives the top line of the screen but only some of
the
text on the IE screen but nothing of the tool bars.
I have run all the utilities I can think of to make sure that I have
no
virus on the system and I have removed all fragmented files to no
avail.

Any ideas?



All the best,
 
 
Cearbhall 
 
"Good design enables - Bad design disables"
 
Tel: 01-2864623 Mob: 087 9922227 Em: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxxxxx 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary King
Sent: 23 February 2009 22:45
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for TaxAct 2008

Hi David,

You can get the free standard edition of TaxAct by going to

www.taxact.com 

choosing the download link and then selecting the Free Edition.

I have already made all of the modifications in the script and various
associated files that I made in past years, including the proper entry
in
confignames.ini, and my renamed script file and other associated files
are
being loaded.  I have changed all of the references in the header and
message files to 2008.  I haven't gone very far into the program, but
the
prompts for fields for name, address and social security number still
speak
correctly.  It's the buttons that are not being recognized by JFW.  If
you
look through the TaxAct script, you will see that FS had to do some
tricks
to get the buttons spoken in a meaningful way.  These tricks seem to
be
failing with the buttons in the current version of TaxAct.

Any help you can give will be appreciated.  I know of at least 2 other
JAWS
users who would like to continue using TaxAct.

Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Farough" <David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JawsScripts" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:49 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts for TaxAct 2008


> Hi Gary:
>
> I do not have this program so I do not know how much help I can
> provide.  However, If you answer these questions I may be able to
help a
> little.
>
> 1.  Where did you get this program from?  I did a google search on
it
> and saw all sorts of similarly named programs and did not want to
risk
> looking at the wrong one.
>
> 2.  What is the name of the executable that is spoken when you press
> insert+q when the application has focus?
> I noticed the following entry in the confignames.ini.
> TaxAct06=TaxAct 2006
>
> I suspect that the executable for this version may be TaxAct08
>
> If so, you could add an entry to confignames.ini as follows:
> TaxAct08=TaxAct 2006
>
> Judging from what I am seeing in the configuration files, It may be
> difficult to get this working again if they have made significant
> changes to the interface.
>
>
>
> David Farough
> Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de
l'accessibilité
> Information Technology Services Directorate /
> Direction des services d'information technologiques
> Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
> Email / Courriel:  David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Tel. / Tél:    (613) 992-2779
>
>>>> "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04:51 pm Sunday, February 22,
> 2009 >>>
> Is anyone planning to modify previous TaxAct scripts to work with
> TaxAct
> 2008?  In the past, simple modifications to the various script and
> associated files made previous versions of TaxAct scripts work with
the
>
> current version of the program, but this year, 2nd Story Software
seems
> to
> have made changes to the program that prevents JFW from speaking the
> controls.  I have used TaxAct for 10 years and hate to abandon it.
> Importing data from the previous year makes it easy to get started
on
> this
> year's taxes; at least it would, if the buttons and checkboxes would
> speak.
>
> Gary King
> mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>
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