Re: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the down-arrow.

  • From: "Grant Hardy" <hardy_grant@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:02:42 -0800

Trust me, this is a jaws command. If done properly it does work everywhere.
I don't get what the problem is here. Can you tell me exactly what you are 
doing in what order?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Russell Solowoniuk 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:17 PM
  Subject: Re: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the down-arrow.

  Hi,

  I've come across combo boxes where this method doesn't work.  Actually
  nothing works except pressing alt + left arrow and going back to the
  combo box and choosing the next item in the list and so forth until
  the desired choice is reached which can be a real pain if there are a
  lot of items in the list.

  Russell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Grant Hardy" <hardy_grant@xxxxxxxxx>
  To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:49 AM
  Subject: RE: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the
  down-arrow.


  Guys, what you do is press enter first to enter into the combo box,
  then
  press alt down arrow, arrow around to select your desired choice and
  then
  press alt up arrow.

  Grant

  -----Original Message-----
  From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
  Behalf Of
  Dr. Azim
  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:38 AM
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the
  down-arrow.

  Hi,

  I've had this happen to me on some web pages but not on all. It seems
  to me
  that this is a web-page problem rather than a jaws problem. One way to
  get
  around it is to cursor down to the selection you want very quickly and
  let
  the program activate it for you. I'm referring here to jaws 4.2
  version.
  Good luck!


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Robert McCoy" <rmccoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 4:22 PM
  Subject: RE: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the
  down-arrow.


  The alt plus down arrow does not seem to open the combo box. Enter
  does open
  the box, but when I hit the down arrow to select a product, it
  activates the
  link immediately and takes me to a download page preventing me from
  making
  the selection that I want, which is not the first one in the combo
  box.



  Robert McCoy
  (506) 459-6636


  -----Original Message-----
  From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
  Behalf Of Ammar Elsherei
  Sent: December 4, 2003 8:26 AM
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the
  down-arrow.


  Hi Robert,
  Press alt and cursor down to open the menu, then use your up and down
  cursor
  to browse through.
  I hope this helps.

  Ammar Elsherei.
  Egyptian Composer and Musician.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Robert McCoy" <rmccoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: "Jfw (E-mail)" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:20 PM
  Subject: Combo boxes that respond as if selected with the down-arrow.


  Thanks in advance and hope this is clear.
  When on a combo box and hitting down arrow to highlight a  desired
  selection, sometimes the link is activated simply by hitting the down
  arrow
  instead of the enter key or tabbing to a button for submit or select.
  How does one make choice selections in this situation without starting
  a
  download of something you do not want.
  I am using XPHome, Jaws 5x, and IE.

  The download page of www.ultralingua.com has a combo box that act this
  way,
  the one for select product to download.
   Again, thanks in advance
  Robert McCoy
  (506) 459-6636

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