[jaws-uk] Re: Reading prompts for edit boxes in web page

  • From: Martin Dudley <dudleym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 13:22:06 +0100

Hi Robin

This can't be a design problem as it works just fine with jaws 5.

Martin


Robin Clayden recently said:-

>Hi,
>
>Apologies if this has been mentioned as I've not followed this thread
>right through, and I also may be a bit off the mark, but here goes...
>
>This might be the fault also of the website designers so if you have a
>feedback option for website problems I might suggest you give it a bash.
>
>Your account user name and passsword are fixed and may well be properly
>labelled in the source code of the webpage, but because your third edit
>field is a variable, random selection, I wonder if it hasn't been
>labelled properly.... This might be down to poor or lazy web design.
>
>Robin.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Martin Dudley
>Sent: 04 May 2007 11:34
>To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Reading prompts for edit boxes in web page
>
>
>Hi folks
>
>Thanks for the responses so far. but as mentioned in my posting this has
>
>only occurred since after jaws 5. All releases since then have had the=20
>problem.
>
>Are there any techies out there that know how to create a custom label
>tag=20
>for one particular edit box and have jaws read this tag when navigating
>to=20
>the box? Surely there must be a way of getting this prompt reading again
>
>just as jaws 5 used to. Please note though that jaws 5 worked out of the
>
>box and no adjustments or custom labels etc were created.
>
>Thanks
>Martin
>
>
>David recently said:-
>
> >Hi Martin,
> >
> >There seems to be a general problem for some of us on Banking websites.
>The
> >problem is focusing on certain security fields as you have described.
>The
> >only way I get around it is by going into Jaws 7.1 and the problem is
> >resolved.
> >
> >You may need to check the Legacy Support option in Jaws 7.1.  You can
>find
> >it as follows:
> >
> >Configuration Manager
> >HTML Options
> >Misc
> >Then tab to the third option I think
> >
> >The last time I looked at this it was checked but this morning it
>wasn't but
> >still seems to work.  It must be something to do with IE7 which I've
> >installed recently.
> >
> >Anyway, just a few thoughts.  I mainly use Jaws 8.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> >Behalf Of Martin Dudley
> >Sent: 02 May 2007 22:11
> >To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [jaws-uk] Reading prompts for edit boxes in web page
> >
> >
> >         Hi folks
> >
> >I've put this off for some time but would like to get it working again
>if
> >possible. I use Halifax online banking and when logging on there are
>three
> >edit boxes  to fill in, username, password and security answer. The
> >username and password boxes are no problem as jaws prompts for user
>name or
> >password when navigating to the boxes. However the security answer
>prompt
> >could be one of a number of questions, ie. place of birth, fathers
>first
> >name etc. Jaws simply prompts for 'enter security answer' when
>navigating
> >into the edit boxand no longer prompts me for the question (jaws 5 and
> >below used to and still does read out the question). When in the edit
>box
> >if I exit from forms mode and cursor up the line above the edit box
> >displays what jaws is prompting that is 'enter the security answer'.
>The
> >line above this is the question to the security answer ie. 'your
>fathers
> >first name'. Does anyone know how |I can get jaws 8 to read out this
>prompt
> >when I tab to the edit box? As I mentioned jaws 5 works just fine so
>surely
> >there is some way I can tweak the settings in v8.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Martin
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