Brent: I don't know what version of Jaws you are using, but I was looking at the Freedom Scientific site and noticed one of the items mentioned in the What's New in Jaws 12 Public Beta, that looks that it might apply to you. The item seemed to be talking about problems with edit boxes in Web forms. I hope this helps you. Gerry Aubertin Programmer/Analyst Phone: (519) 271-4840 Ext. 8807 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - The contents of this message and the attachments are confidential and are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, please immediately delete it without reading it and without further distribution or disclosure. Any further distribution of this message to others is subject to this Confidentiality Notice and/or any confidentiality agreement or non-disclosure agreement in effect that covers the information contained in the message and any attachments. ________________________________________ From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brent Neal [bneal@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 5:45 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Cognos Problem with JAWS I have not heard anything so far. Sometimes when I go to a different report in the same session it works correctly then that one also stops working. This is a strange problem. There is a person from IBM Cognos who is coming to Utah and he said he will meet with me for a couple of hours on October 21 to talk about accessibility. I hope some how I can get this figured out. Brent Neal 140 E 300 S Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Programmer Phone: 801.526.9797 Email: bneal@xxxxxxxx<mailto:bneal@xxxxxxxx> >>> Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc@xxxxxxxxx> 9/14/2010 3:29 PM >>> Hi Brent Did you get any private replies to this? To be honest, it sounds like your problem could EITHER be something with JAWS or something with Cognos. I say this because the problem occurs in two different versions of Explorer as well. Once in awhile when someone posts a query like this, someone else will have suggestions for things to try related to the different JAWS cursors and I am a lousy source for anything like that. Otherwise,you may need to get your own tech support on the phone with both Cognos and FS to figure out what the issues might be. I ask in a few different places about people using these tools with JAWS and my sense is there really are not a lot of people so you probably get to be on the bleeding edge of testing accessibility features. For instance, is there some other way to enter things that go into formulas? I am interested in what you figure out about this. DoreneC Seattle WA On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Brent Neal <bneal@xxxxxxxx<mailto:bneal@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: Our data warehouse team uses IBM Cognos to create reports for our users. The Report Studio is an internet application. I created a table inside the report and in one of the table cells I need to add a formula. To do this I go to query calculation and double click with the left mouse button. This brings up a pop-up edit box used to enter the name of the formula. Once I type the name and hit enter another pop-up edit box called expression definition pops up which is used to enter the code. This worked correctly for about 5 times then after that JAWS would no longer recognize it as an edit box. It still pops up but JAWS does not recognize it and does not allow a sighted user to type in it. A sighted user can copy and paste something in this box but cannot type. When we upgraded from IE6 to IE8 it worked correctly for about 5 or 6 more times then the same problem came up. I cannot think of anything I am doing different. Does anyone have any idea what JAWS could be doing to cause this problem and how to fix it? This is very important because this is where you type and modify the code. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank You Brent Neal 140 E 300 S Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Programmer Phone: 801.526.9797 Email: bneal@xxxxxxxx<mailto:bneal@xxxxxxxx>