I've just remembered another experience I had recently. Neither the spacebar nor the return key would activate a certain button. I pressed the navigation command "b" for button, which landed me back on the button I wanted. This time when I pressed spacebar, it activated.
I'm finding something similar happens with links on some webpages. The only way I can activate them is by going into the links list with insert-F7 and locating the desired link again. When in this list, pressing enter works.
----- Original Message ----- From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:37 PM Try the space bar on the button. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily de Rham" <rabbet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: activating a submit button Hi,A friend and I were on the phone, each on our own computers, trying to fill out a form on the McGill University Alumni web site. The form wanted user name and password, and then had a submit button. When I activated the submit button by tab plus spacebar or by enter enter, I was taken to the next page. But my friend kept going in circles. She activated the submit button and JAWS indicated it was loading a new page, but actually it just reloaded the form page. We tried numerous times, and she couldn't get hers to work. Using the B key, we did verify that JAWS did recognize "submit" as a button.
Any ideas about what might be going wrong? She has JAWS version 8 and I have 10.
Thanks,Emily
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