[jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:31:08 -0800
I would also wonder if it is actually a standard menu or merely a
custom control that has been made to look like the standard one.
On 9/13/12, Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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