Re: JAWS in auto forms mode, particularly in edit fields

  • From: "Peter" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:55:18 -0000

But what is easier. To have to press escape then control and home before you 
can navigate, or to just have to press E once the page loads to get to your 
logon screen. Not so bad if you only ever visit a couple of sites, but if you 
go around all over the place and don't know or can't remember what all the 
first edit fields are then it becomes a problem because you ahve to go out of 
forms mode to find out what the edit field is.

Peter


From: Adrian Spratt 
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:03 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re: JAWS in auto forms mode, particularly in edit fields 


When JAWS lands on an auto form as a page opens, I may arrow up once and then 
press control-home to go to the top of the page so that the JAWS quick keys can 
do their good work. Otherwise, it's helpful that JAWS does land right on that 
first forms field so that, for example, I can sign in right away.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roy Nickelson 
  Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:37 PM


  sounds like the navigation quick key delay setting might be a good one for 
you to check out.
  Roy

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Brian Giles 
    Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 4:41 PM


    I love autoforms mode, but I hate it on pages with the auto focus in an 
edit field, like google and youtube. As I use quick navigation keys a lot, it 
gets really annoying when I hit H for the next heading and it starts typing and 
I don't realize it so press enter, and it searches for something with an H at 
the beginning of my search query. The page will load and I'll hit escape or 
numpad plus to get out of forms mode, but then the page reloads and forms mode 
gets turned on again. So I'll think forms mode is off since I've told JAWS to 
get out of it, but then it'll start typing.

     

    Kind of ironic how pre JAWS 10, I'd sometimes forget to turn forms mode on 
and start jumping all over the page, which got really annoying when a sighted 
person was trying to help me with something. And now that there's autoforms 
mode, it is activating sometimes when I don't want it.

     

    Is there a way to leave autoforms mode on, but require you to manually 
enter forms mode on pages with auto focus to edit fields? I would love that.

     

    Brian

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