[jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
- From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:45:55 -0700
Sure. To hear the menus spoken you have to catch the keystroke with the
onKeyPressedEvent for the alt key and get it to speak the line. If it
doesn't speak, you have to see if it speaks with the object name. If that
doesn't speak, have it speak the window name on the current window. The left
and right and up and down arrows must be able to recognize the window class
in the menus or whatever individual identifier so it can speak the correct
information. I can give some examples if needed from my latest project.
John
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:53 PM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Menus in Windows7
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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