[jawsscripts] Re: List Box
- From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:27:39 -0500
thanks for somem ideas. There is no focus when this search results page
comes up. so it may just be something where you have to use the JAWS cursor
and the mouse to hit the scroll bar. The company has made some things more
accessible in this product but they say they can't change this page. so we
may be sunk and just have to use the JAWS cursor.
Dean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: List Box
| Hi Dean,
| well hmmm, Do you know for a fact that the whole multiLine listBox items
| actually either change color as you use down arrow to traverse it, or in
| some other way gain focus though? as you do this?
|
| i.e. I'm thinking it would be worth establishing whether the program
| actually supports this functionality with the down arrow, forgetting for a
| moment about jaws speaking the right stuff as you do this.
| e.g. do you know for a fact that it isn't just a mouseOnly control, which
| doesn't even support use of pc Cursor arrows at all, to change anything?
| I admit I don't properly understand this whole deal of Reclassing in jaws,
| and exactly what it facilitates in the scheme of things, but I myself as
yet
| cannot see how, for example, it could possibly make a program do what it
| might not actualy be programmed to do by default. i.e. to select differing
| options in a listBox using the arrow keys?
| I hope this isn't the case for your sake, but, I've often wondered you
see,
| why that functionality is bothered to be supported at all in programs,
since
| the sightling doesn't of course need nor use such functionality at all.
they
| can simply glance at the whole list of options, click the scroll bar on
the
| side to scroll it down, then click the one they want, with no need of any
| concept of builtin keyboard support for pc cursor arrows to do anything?
no
| need of highlights or focus changing from item to item with arrow presses
| etc.
|
| in these cases it'd just be a "look and click," thing?
|
| now, let's hope that is not the case in your sitch. assuming it isn't, and
| that arrows do work to actually highlight in some way, each multi line
item,
| getting jaws to actualy speak the right stuff, *might* simply be a case of
| examining the highlight color, of the selected item, next to one which is
| not selected/highlighted, and marking the highlight as a custom highlight?
| Could it be that simple? I'd strongly advise using invisible cursor
though,
| not jaws cursor,
| to check text colors with JawsKey+TopRow number 5 whilst over text, to do
th
| is. Because, if you use the jaws cursor, this might introduce a further
| complication into the mix, since sometimes when the mouse hovers over
items,
| their color changes to reflect this, and thus using that to mark a custom
| highlight with JawsKey+control+h, will not yield any useful results, for
| when the arrows are moving the highlight color, the mouse usually would
| remain in a static location.
| HTH.
|
| geoff c.
| From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: "JAWS Scripts" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:30 AM
| Subject: [jawsscripts] List Box
|
|
| > I have a program that uses a TVariableListBox which I cannot reclass so
| that
| > I can move down the list. It is from a Bible software package and each
| item
| > includes a verse and reference. so it is not just one line. Each entry
has
| a
| > checkbox beside it. does anyone have any suggestions on what I dcan do
to
| > make it workable with the PC cursor? I can read the current screen with
| the
| > JAWS cursor but can't move down the list further than is shown.
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Dean
| > I personally know someone who literally is older than dirt.
| > If you would like to meet him, please write to me
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