[jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
- From: Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:55:44 -0400
Not sure if the menu problem is for all, but FS
did state in 14 that problem with IE9 was fixed.
Try highlight color. that let jaws see menus on a program I had trouble with.
At 06:46 AM 9/13/2012, you wrote:
>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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