Hi,I've found very few occasions when onmouse-overs work as advertised in the Surf's Up Series. The examples provided by FS certainly do, but the majority of the one's I've encountered in the wild don't, which leads me to conclude that (a) either the information resulting from the mouse-over action is graphical and thus not detected by JAWS, or (b) many web authors don't know how to properly code them so that they work properly.
Tom----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:40 PM Subject: Re: on mouse over
Just as an addendum to Jerry's helpful contribution, the mouse over topic isgiven a place of its own in the Freedom Scientific tutorial called Surf's Up. Right there on the FS Web site, I believe as a link under the Jaws Central section. It's a tutorial that has you go through the steps and explains how to do it. Having said that, I should also confess that I found the procedure so muchof a hassle, at least as it was explained there, that after working with thetutorial and trying my best to absorb the technique, I never again paid attention to these page elements, hoping that much of what they presented was information that was relatively extraneous, or self-evident, orredundant. But mileage may vary, as they say, depending on your temperament. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:54 PM Subject: Re: on mouse over These are five-year-old instructions from Debbie Scales. I believe they still apply-- Press insert six for the configuration manager. Press control shift D for the default file. Press alt S for the set options menu. Press H for HTML options. Control shift tab to the misc tab and uncheck the box for indicate element attribute. Save your changes.----- Original Message ----- From: CheryllTo: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:56 PM Subject: Re: on mouse over Hello, How did you disable mouse over? Thanks, Cheryl----- Original Message ----- From: AlvinTo: JFW Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:12 AM Subject: on mouse over I have disabled the on mouse over function for as long as the functionhas been introduced. Thought of giving it a try but have the slightest ideaof how to use it. Running jaws9. Your helps is greatly appreciated! Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1526 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 8:43 AM -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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