Re: Turning Off Auto-Select In Combo Boxes

Thanks! It's been bothering me all morning.

Dave
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary King 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 13:00
  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
  w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Farfar Carlson 
    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 
      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 
        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 
          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 
            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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