[jawsscripts] Re: [BULK] Re: making menu bar accessible

  • From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:29:50 -0300

minitab 15 ...
It will be a aparently pretty hard application to script ..
Your messages still are with strange characters.
Marlon


2008/5/29, Sean Farrow <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi marlon, which version, I know I have to use this, so any info would =
> help.=20
> Sean.
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> Hello,
> I tried to assign the black on navy gray to foreground and background =
> colors, but now jaws reads a lot of things much like if the all mode =
> (ins + s) was active ..
> Sean, your message is with several strange characters which makes its =
> understanding hard ..
> The app is minitab.
> If you guys could explain me how these things related to color =
> assignments work it would be cool.
> Marlon
>
>
> 2008/5/29, Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Try activating the menu and move to a item in the menu. then rout jaws =
>
>> to pc and make sure your on that item. Now hit insert + f2, and go to=20
>> custom highlight assign...
>> Let it pick the colors and see if that reads the menu items now.
>>
>> At 02:47 PM 5/29/2008, you wrote:
>>>Hello all,
>>>I am scripting an application and trying to make the menu bar=20
>>>accessible. Its current behavior is the following:
>>>If I press alt + f I hhave access to the items in the file menu. This=20
>>>same statement is true  to all of the other menus in the menu bar.
>>>If, however, I press only the alt key to give me access to the menu=20
>>>bar nothing happens.
>>>If I use the activateMenuBar() function, I am placed in the menu bar,.
>>>I can right and left arrow through the menus, but jaws won't speak the =
>
>>>name of the currently selected menu, although if I press the down=20
>>>arrow I am able to hear the items of tthat menu.
>>>So let's supose I have three menus in the application, file edit and =
> view.
>>>If I press the alt key nothing happens.
>>>If I press alt+f I am successfully able to access the file menu items, =
>
>>>such as open, close and save.
>>>if I use the activateMenuBar scripting function, I am placed on the=20
>>>menu bar, but jaws doesn't speak the currently selected menu.
>>>If I, for example, after placed in the menu bar, press the right arrow =
>
>>>once, jaws doesn't speak nothing, but if I press down arrow, I have=20
>>>access to the items of the edit menu, such as copy and find, so I know =
>
>>>that the right and left arrows are in fact selecting menus in the menu =
>
>>>bar, the only problem is the miss of jaws feedback.
>>>This said, it's a common problem that I found in more than one=20
>>>application, and I have no idea about how to fix this. VMware servver=20
>>>has this problem also, and this feature is missing in ty scripts,=20
>>>although I am scripting at the moment  a different application Do you=20
>>>know how can I make jaws read the menu bar correctly?
>>>Thanks,
>>>Marlon
>>>
>>>
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