RE: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo Boxes
- From: "Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)" <Ted.Lisle@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:45:09 -0400
I don't think I knew that. Man, that would have been handy when I was
filling out all those job applications earlier this year and last. Some
of those boxes can be a challenge.
Ted
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gary King
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:01 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo Boxes
Dave,
You're thinking of a multiselect list box where you use shift+F8 and
then press Space Bar on the items you want to select.
Gary King
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----- Original Message -----
From: Farfar Carlson <mailto:dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo Boxes
Jerry, No, that's not quite what I recall. Something like a
keystroke that used one of the F# keys to not only open the list, but to
allow us to move up and down without each movement triggering a change
in the web page.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: G.W. Cox <mailto:gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 09:46
Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo Boxes
How about first-letter navigation? I have one site where
I can open a combo box, select what I want it to do and just hit escape
and wait for Jaws to talk and the page is what I wanted.
----- Original Message -----
From: Farfar Carlson
<mailto:dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo
Boxes
Tom and others,
I also vaguely recall a keystroke that allowed a
combo box or editable list to be opened without suffering the web page
refreshing with each item as you arrow down. Something similar to
freezing the list to allow us to pick the item. Wish I could remember
that keystroke.
Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing
Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Lange
<mailto:trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 05:36
Subject: Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In
Combo Boxes
Hi,
Try using alt+down arrow instead. That
should do it.
Tom
keystroke.
----- Original Message -----
From: Samara Raine
<mailto:samararaine@xxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:57 AM
Subject: Turning Off Auto-Select In
Combo Boxes
Is there a way to force a combo box that
automatically selects an option when you arrow through it not to do
this? I know how to do it in multi-select lists and such, but not so
much in combo boxes. The shift plus down arrow doesn't seem to work
here. Is there any other way? It's tedious having to wait for a page to
load each time when I'm going through a combo box of 349 items.
Thanks so much.
Samara
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