[jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
- From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:22:10 -0700
I have found that some applications require you to manually key the arrows
and the alt key to read the lines or window objects. Not very friendly under
windows 7, but I have seen this and corrected it manually.
John Martyn
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Hartgen
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:47 AM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Menus in Windows7
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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