[program-l] Re: JAWS and Hidden Label still reading

  • From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:02:52 -0400

Hi: I just set the label to empty and ReLoaded the text property and hid the control -that seems to be working. 

Pranav suggested it.
It is interesting that NVDA and JAWS do not respect the label state, hidden or the visible property set to False. 
Rick USA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:01 PM
Subject: [program-l] Re: JAWS and Hidden Label still reading



I'm not sure that it will work but I would consider adding a call to
the form's .Refresh() after changing the label's visibility.  If that
doesn't work I might go so far as to use AccessibilityNotifyClients.

James is absolutely right that this is something that should be
handled from the program side rather than needing to muck with the
screen reader.

On 10/30/12, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Rick,
I'm going to guess that this sounds like a JAWS problem. Do you do something 
to hide, then show the label? If so, after you hide the label, with JAWS,
press Insert + Escape, then see if it disappears. If it does, then JAWS
isn't updating its representation of the screen. Is there some sort of
function that can redraw the window, or a portion of it? If so, then you
might want to invoke it after you hide or show the label in the hope that
JAWS will pick up on the attempt to redraw. This isn't the best situation, though. You shouldn't need to compensate for any screen reader if something 
is supposed to work.

Thanks.

Jim
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of RicksPlace
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:02 PM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] JAWS and Hidden Label still reading

Hi:
I have a vb.net app and hide a label control when a button is clicked.
WindowEyes reads correctly, the label is gone, and a sighted user confirms 
the label is gone from the screen.
I run NVDA and it reads the label as does JAWS on another fellow's machine. 
Is this a bug in JAWS or am I missing something obvious?
I have tried both TickerLabel.Visible = False and TickerLabel.Hide() with
the same results.
Any help, ideas or workarounds?
Rick USA

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