[program-l] Re: JAWS and Hidden Label still reading
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:10:04 -0800
Did the jaws+esc make jaws aware that the label is not visible? If
that does in fact take care of it I would suspect a winevent mix-up.
On 10/31/12, RicksPlace <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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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