Sorry John, but would you mind elaborating on this a bit further? Thanks much. G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:22 AM Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7 >I have found that some applications require you to manually key the arrows > and the alt key to read the lines or window objects. Not very friendly > under > windows 7, but I have seen this and corrected it manually. > John Martyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Hartgen > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:47 AM > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jawsscripts] Menus in Windows7 > > Hi > I have a customer who was using jaws 8 with some custom scripts on a > Windows > XP machine in conjunction with an application specific to this particular > company. > > She has upgraded to Windows7 and jaws 13. Jaws is having a problem reading > the menus in this application. The menu bar, which was not scripted for, > is > a standard one, where pressing the alt key brings up the menu and you can > then arrow through the choices. Pressing Escape dismisses the menu bar. > > From my remote examination just now, it seems that jaws is getting a > little > confused as to when it is, or is not, in the menus. For example, if you > hit > alt F for file, then arrow down, visually the focus is moving but jaws is > not reading the item. In addition, if you hit escape to drop out of the > menus, jaws thinks it is still in the menu. > So it seems as though, when the menu bar is activated, jaws thinks it is > not > in the menu, but when the menu is exited, it assumes it is. > > I understand noone can comment on this particular application, but I just > wonder if people have found the transition from XP to 7 alittle > problematic > at all? I say this because, even under normal circumstances such as when > using Outlook on my own PC , I find that pressing alt F4 doesn't always > close down the application correctly when jaws is running, but instead > sets > focus to the menu bar. I just wonder if jaws has a problem with Windows7 > and > menus generally? > > Thanks. > > Brian > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts