[jawsscripts] Menus in Windows7
- From: "Brian Hartgen" <jaws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:46:58 +0100
Hi
I have a customer who was using jaws 8 with some custom scripts on a Windows XP
machine in conjunction with an application specific to this particular company.
She has upgraded to Windows7 and jaws 13. Jaws is having a problem reading the
menus in this application. The menu bar, which was not scripted for, is a
standard one, where pressing the alt key brings up the menu and you can then
arrow through the choices. Pressing Escape dismisses the menu bar.
From my remote examination just now, it seems that jaws is getting a little
confused as to when it is, or is not, in the menus. For example, if you hit alt
F for file, then arrow down, visually the focus is moving but jaws is not
reading the item. In addition, if you hit escape to drop out of the menus, jaws
thinks it is still in the menu.
So it seems as though, when the menu bar is activated, jaws thinks it is not in
the menu, but when the menu is exited, it assumes it is.
I understand noone can comment on this particular application, but I just
wonder if people have found the transition from XP to 7 alittle problematic at
all? I say this because, even under normal circumstances such as when using
Outlook on my own PC , I find that pressing alt F4 doesn't always close down
the application correctly when jaws is running, but instead sets focus to the
menu bar. I just wonder if jaws has a problem with Windows7 and menus generally?
Thanks.
Brian
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