[jawsscripts] Re: Best way of locating focus on elements in Web-based apps?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:44:24 +1100
HAHAHAHA WOW!
It's Sure gratifying to see how much interesting and valuable awesome
discussion and exchange there's been over this one!
:)
My obvious incredible thanks and gratitude goes out to every one of you
who've chimed in and contributed to this one. What a valuable resource such
dialog form for all of us trying to struggle through realworld and useable
application of an increasingly cloude-based web front end UI environment,
that many work place apps are fast becoming!
Sure Hope there's a ton more dialogs like this.
I haven't yet tooled through seeking to actually implement any of the
suggestions yet, but have concatinated them all into one document in
correct thread order, so, but I can see I'm gonna have to learn a bit more
of the basics of object and DOM and javascript Aria nomipulation before I'm
going to be much use at bringing my own realworld solutions to these
problems.
Thanks again to everyone!
G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 9:19 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Best way of locating focus on elements in
Web-based apps?
>I don't know about it, but in forms at least a single form, you can use
> tabIndex to get the cursor to tab to the next element you want. I don't
> know
> if this would apply to the whole page with different forms but it is worth
> a
> shot.
> Cheers,
> John Martyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Chapman
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:10 AM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Best way of locating focus on elements in Web-based
> apps?
>
> 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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