[jawsscripts] Best way of locating focus on elements in Web-based apps?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:09:45 +1100
Thanks to many of you up here, who so kindly told me about the,
"SetJawsFindText", and "JawsFindNext" functions,
I now have been able to set up some lovely shortCut keys for the user to very
quickly locate and activate buttons in his new Web-based front end customer
service system.
And that's so far workin a treat!
:)
However, I'd like to go a level deeper now, and be able to learn how I might
least invasively, but most efficiently/robustly, locate and bring PCCursor
focus to,a given control, (or "element" I think is the term used in Web land?)
rather than just blindly using virtual find to locate text on a page. Since
sometimes, of course, text being looked for, using virtual find mechanisms,
may occur both as an element label, and as non-clickable plain text on the
page.
And sometimes, as in this case, even as part of other Same type elements!
E.g. suppose I have an edit field, whose label is "search," but there are
several other occurrances of the word "search" on the page.
Not only this, but there is at least one other edit field element labelled
"favorite searches," which would of course get picked up on any StringContains
deal.
What would people suggest might be some code snippets/ideas/methodologies I
might try, to accomplish tooling through elements looking for this particular
edit control, whose label is merely the word "Search," and nothing else?
Thanks much for any tips anyone would care to share on this one?
Geoff c.
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