Formerly, in a combo box situation in an online form or in something like
my
Word 2000 Format Paragraph settings, if I enter Forms mode in order to
select of the listed options in the combo box and then press Enter, I was
left in Forms mode to go on to the next form field. Pressing enter had
served only to close (I'm pretty sure, anyway) the combo box, not to take
me
out of Forms Mode.
But with Jaws 8, pressing Enter at that point *does* turn off Forms Mode,
and so I have to turn it on again for the next form field.
I can manage this, of course, now that I see it works this way, this
version. But I wonder, are others experiencing the same new thing? Please
note: I know that not everyone might be in the habit of pressing Enter to
close a combo box as I describe; there may be another method (see below)
or
you may know that if you simply tab out of a combo box after arrowing to
your preferred option, that option will register when you complete the
form.
but I seem to have learned it in the course of some tutorial a long time
ago
and it's always worked that way for me, until now. Also please note that
I'm
aware on some Web sites the combo boxes are set up so that the moment you
arrow to a listed option and press Tab, or even without pressing tab,
you're
sent to a different page that your choice represents. In other words, the
effect is like activating a link. I always find those a surprise, and it
isn't that kind of thing I'm talking about. Just ordinary combo boxes like
you find in a series in providing, say, credit card information.
Also, if there's some other way to confirm a combo box selection that I
don't know of, please tell me. Does Control up arrow work for that
purpose?
If so, that makes my question just academic,. Interesting, but not vital.
thanks.
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