RE: JAWS in auto forms mode, particularly in edit fields

  • From: "Brian Giles" <briangiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:41:15 -0700

I love autoforms mode, but I hate it on pages with the auto focus in an edit
field, like google and youtube. As I use quick navigation keys a lot, it
gets really annoying when I hit H for the next heading and it starts typing
and I don't realize it so press enter, and it searches for something with an
H at the beginning of my search query. The page will load and I'll hit
escape or numpad plus to get out of forms mode, but then the page reloads
and forms mode gets turned on again. So I'll think forms mode is off since
I've told JAWS to get out of it, but then it'll start typing.

 

Kind of ironic how pre JAWS 10, I'd sometimes forget to turn forms mode on
and start jumping all over the page, which got really annoying when a
sighted person was trying to help me with something. And now that there's
autoforms mode, it is activating sometimes when I don't want it.

 

Is there a way to leave autoforms mode on, but require you to manually enter
forms mode on pages with auto focus to edit fields? I would love that.

 

Brian

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