[jawsscripts] Re: List Box
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:04:03 +1100
that is very non-optimal!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:27 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: List Box
> 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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> | >
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> | >
> | >
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