[jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:52:44 +1000
Sorry John, but would you mind elaborating on this a bit further?
Thanks much.
G.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 10:22 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
>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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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