Re: Jaws 8 Forms mode change?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:36:53 -0800
Well then, forget the part about Word. Some of the experiences I've been
having are pretty confusing.
As for the other, online forms, no, I have Jaws set to its default of
automatically exiting forms mode just as you describe. But it happens to
have been my experience all along, over several versions, that in fact if
I'm in a combo box, do my selection from the list, and then press Enter, it
has always seemed just to close the combo box just as if I'd pressed alt up
arrow. Go figure, like they say.
Amazon would be a familiar example. If I were pressing Enter only to confirm
a combo box selection--something I seem to have learned, somewhere, some
time ago-- it would not exit me from Forms Mode but just allow me to tab to
the next form field, for instance the edit box for a search that relates to
the combo box where I've chosen which Amazon department to search in. And
now it behaves just as you're familiar with.
Honestly this is true experience. Also, it's for several versions until now.
But it's okay. I know how to do it right. I was just curious.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Holdstock" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Jaws 8 Forms mode change?
I'm a bit confused.
In Word, I didn't think you needed to go in to forms mode in dialogue boxes
to change sttings ind rop down boxes.
Also, I thought JAWS had always done what you say in online forms. it takes
you out of forms mode when you press enter, unless you have it set to not
automaticaly swithc out of forms mode in verbocity settings. I use ALT + Up
/ Down arrows to move through combo boxes on web pages then it doens't
automitcaly make changes and move you to another web page or anything.
HTH
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:19 PM
Subject: Jaws 8 Forms mode change?
> 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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