Re: JAWS 10 - Auto forms mode
- From: "alice dampman" <alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:11:20 -0400
Sighted people can also immediately see the blinking cursor and know where it
is in a microsecond. They don't have to remember every time they go to a web
site to do an additional key combination to check to see where that cursor is.
No, I have not used the feature. But I don't have to be exposed to
everything to know whether or not it is a good idea for me or not. I already
can tell you that I don't want yet another thing to remember to do everytime I
open a web site. I guess, like the sighted people you refer to, I want to open
the site and go about my business without having to waste time and brain cells
ha ha checking to make sure where I am. I'd rather have the program
consistently place me in the same situation. Web sites are quirky and behave
differently enough when using a screen reader without adding yet another
variable into the mix.
For example, I love web sites that put me back where I was when I go back
to the previous page after visiting a link.
It's consistent, it's convenient. All web sites do not do this successfully. It
can be worked around, but it seems so much easier to me if you go back to the
same point from which you departed.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Nickelson
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: JAWS 10 - Auto forms mode
remember that people who don't use screen readers do not have to think about
forms mode so this is just makeing the experience mor like most people have.
Also have you actually used the feature?
Roy
----- Original Message -----
From: alice dampman
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: JAWS 10 - Auto forms mode
I don't think I like the idea of auto forms mode at all. If I want to fill
out something, it is so easy to hit enter to get into forms mode, there is no
chance of typing something into an edit field unintentionally, I always know
whether I'm in forms mode or not, and if for some reason, I'm unsure, all I
have to do is press the key combination for the pc cursor to find out.
I don't like my computer or its programs to do my thinking for me, and
automatically putting me in forms mode when I may not want to be there falls
into that category IMO.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Holdstock
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: JAWS 10 - Auto forms mode
Hi, I love the new auto forms mode. However I find it annoying when
sometimes it will automatically go in to auto forms mode when you first load up
a site. For example EBay or other sites were there is a search box or username
field, and the website is designed to put you straight to either of the boxes.
JAWS then switches to forms mode as soon as the page has loaded (sometimes even
whilst it's loading), and then you can't use your navigation quick keys to move
around the page, without having to press down arrow first to get out of forms
mode.
I'd like to have it so that JAWS wont go in to auto forms mode in
situations were the website automatically puts you in an edit field.
Anybody else have any comments on this?
Peter
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