Dear Aedan and Flor, Ins+B usually gets those laconic dialog boxes talking for me. But sometimes I have to resort to the JAWS cursor. Don't know if there's an automatic setting. Probably drive you crazy if there was and you'd only end up switching it off again. Very occasionally, nothing works and I resort to NVDA. Sometimes it will read out things JAWS will not. Try Ins+NumPad8/2 for the parent/child element and Ins+NumPad4/6 for the prev/next sibling element and Ins+NumPadEnter to click the currently focused button, bfn, John