alt+delete. you can also tell by the sound. There is also an option to
have JAWS announce when forms mode is on or off.
Roy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Arnowitt" <foodsong@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:11 PM
Subject: basic question about forms mode
I'm getting along pretty well with Jaws except for using it on the
web, where I just don't seem to be doing things right.
Is there any easy way to know if you're in forms mode or not while in
an edit field? Frequently I go to a site and you might be thrown into
a login section. How do you know if you can just start typing away
... sometimes when I try to do that, it doesn't type at all and if I
happen to type a b it's looking for a button, or a t would be looking
for a table, etc. On the other hand if I press enter hoping to get
into forms mode, sometimes it turns out I'm already in forms mode so
pressing enter executes my blank edit field and takes me to the next
screen. So is there any way I can find out from Jaws before trying to
type if I'm currently in forms mode or not?
Another question I have is sometimes I'm in an edit field and feel
stuck because typing does nothing but pressing enter also does
nothing. An example of when this happens to me is in Google, an
initial search works fine but when I bring the cursor up to the edit
field at the top of the screen to do a second search I can't type
anything in or get into forms mode by pressing enter. A friend of
mine said I should press the plus key on the numpad, then press
enter, but that doesn't work for me in this situation. It appears
Jaws has put me at the end of the Google edit field and I can
backspace characters to delete them but I can't type in new ones.
When I am stuck like this if you can believe it I am actually turning
Jaws off so I can type, then turning Jaws back on to hear the results
from Google, and I can't tell you how dumb this makes me feel.
I am using Jaws 10 with XP.
Michael
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